This Is Lorelei - "The Mall, The Country" + "The Dirt, The Dancing" | Album Reviews
The Mall, The Country and The Dirt, The Dancing are transcendent, alive, breathing. The double EP swells in ambient solemnity and contracts in melodic elegance, as pieces of coherent pop brilliance are encased between swirling panoramic experiments, highlighting Amos’ acute sense of sequencing and pacing.
Westkust - "Westkust" | Album Review
Cheekface - "Therapy Island" | Album Review
Half Thought - "Half Thought" | Album Review
Oozing Wound - "High Anxiety" | Album Review
Coaster - "Stuck With It" | Album Review
Adrianne Lenker - "Abysskiss" | Album Review
Stephen Malkmus - "Groove Denied" | Album Review
State Champion - "Send Flowers" | Album Review
The world that exists in Louisville’s State Champion’s Send Flowers is one cloaked in profound absurdity. It’s a place where you might lose your soul in “a gentleman’s hall in Tijuana” and have the manager offer to send it back home to you if he finds it, where cicadas harmonize with dial tones, where you can “unplug the stars from the sky.”
Hand Habits - "Placeholder" | Album Review
Elizabeth Colour Wheel - "Nocebo" | Album Review
Max Gowan - "Bygones" | Album Review
Young Jesus - "The Whole Thing Is Just There" | Album Review
Young Jesus doesn’t get lumped into typical genres and “FFO” tags very often. They are four musical boundary pushers possessing a sharpened, unique set of characteristics to the way they jam. Complete with a philosophical backing, their music surges through moments of calculated improvisation and engulfing lyrical depth