Big Business - "Command Your Weather" | Album Review
Frameworks - "Smother" | Album Review
Bichkraft - "Shadoof" | Album Review
Useless Eaters - "Relaxing Death" | Album Review
Lately Sutton has grown increasingly ambitious musically, slowly mutating from a fairly straight-forward power chord-plucking garage punk band into something that's more difficult to categorize. That doesn't mean he has slowed down, though. Relaxing Death is Useless Eaters' second release this year, coming only a few months after the excellent 10” EP Temporary Mutilation.
Operator Music Band - "Matérielmusik" | Album Review
The relationship between the technological and the natural, the mechanical and the spiritual, is just one of many impressions emitted from the sophomore effort of Brooklyn’s Operator Music Band. Matérielmusik, while only spanning three tracks in eight minutes, contains the pulp and pit of a whole universe insides its blips and grooves.
All People - "All People" | Album Review
Taken together, All People and Community Records are purposeful projects enacted in furtherance of building a cultural exchange where people can create, produce, and share music. All People’s third full length All People listens like the spiritual cornerstone of this vision, reminding people to step outside of themselves for periodic renewal.
Melvins - "Houdini," "Stoner Witch," & "Stag" (Third Man Records Reissues) | Album Review
Deerhoof - "The Magic" | Album Review
Jackal Onasis - "Big Deal Party" | Album Review
Minikin Presents: Afterthoughts | Album Review
Brooklyn micro label Minikin, have released their first compilation: Afterthoughts; a lovely 14-track record for which the proceeds go to Brooklyn music education platform We Make Noise. Minikin, formed in 2015, have brought together scene stalwarts Bethlehem Steel, Vagabon, Long Beard, gobbinjr, Half Waif, among others, and the result is a lovely, meandering set of songs that fit well together without being overly similar.
Sumac - "What One Becomes" | Album Review
Weaves - "Weaves" | Album Review
Weaves is a key figure on small but beloved Toronto-based label Buzz Records, and their unpredictably spasmodic yet undeniably pop-friendly songs have gathered them an intense worldwide fanbase, one that’s especially staggering for a band with only a couple of EPs and a string of sporadically released singles to their name.
Leapling - "Suspended Animation" | Album Review
Andy Shauf - "The Party" | Album Review
Canadian singer-songwriter Andy Shauf’s album The Party is a masterful work with a compelling narrative about youth and heartbreak. The Party is Shauf’s debut on Anti- Records, telling the tale of a party and the small secrets revealed and social mishaps occurring in a single evening. The songs have a cinematic, quiet beauty to them, with layers of keys, trumpet, guitar and softly pounding drums.
Radiohead - "A Moon Shaped Pool" | Album Review
"The Man Named Turtle" | Documentary Review
Buck Gooter’s heart and soul resides in the comparatively stoic sixty-four year old guitarist/singer Terry Turtle. The sight of Terry onstage shredding and belting like he never passed twenty is guaranteed to linger in concert-goers heads long after Buck Gooter leaves the stage. After more than ten years of playing together Billy decided to team up with Harrisonburg based videographer Joey Bell to create The Man Named Turtle as a way of unwrapping and contextualizing the history of such a unique musician.
EARRING - "Tunn Star" | Album Review
Mourn - "Ha, Ha, He." | Album Review
Few things sound as good as MOURN when they’re at their best, juxtaposing primarily minor chord progressions with a sturdy foundation courtesy of a rhythm section that takes turns providing the spine of their songs. They are relentless in their willingness to make music that takes itself seriously, but only to a point.
