Torres - "Three Futures" | Album Review
Shilpa Ray - "Door Girl" | Album Review
Though Ray has lived here for 17 years, she’s not painting pretty pictures of the city; Door Girl depicts New York as a collage of horrors, anxieties, and frustrations, ranging from the personal to the grandly political. It’s a thesis statement for anyone living paycheck to paycheck (or less) in a storied American city overrun with garbage, gentrification, wage gaps, and public transit.
Petite League - "Rips One Into The Night" | Album Review
King Khan - "Murderburgers" | Album Review
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - "Lotta Sea Lice" | Album Review
What Lotta Sea Lice does amount to is a charming and engaging record about friendship and making music. The narrative being constructed around this record, both in the media and in the lyrics themselves, is one of two artists not only genuinely appreciating the other, but also that of a friend helping to rescue another from uncertainty and expectation.
The Miami Dolphins - "Water Your Waiting For" | Album Review
Cherry - "Dumbness" | Album Review
Protomartyr - "Relatives In Descent" | Album Review
What can an album like Relatives in Descent offer during these dark times? Does it need to offer anything? Like us, it’s an album that is scared, confused, trying to make sense of senseless things. Relatives in Descent is an album concerned with it all. It’s an album that states what it knows and isn’t afraid to wade into what it doesn’t.
Twin Ponies - "Twin Ponies" | Album Review
Chain and the Gang - "Experimental Music" | Album Review
Emily Yacina - "Heart Sky" | Album Review
Faith Healer - "Try ;-)" | Album Review
Helium - "Ends With And" | Album Review
Blacklisters - "Dart" | Album Review
As the byproduct of a studio session for Too Pure Singles Club, Dart captures the band in their natural state of chaos particularly attractive in the indefatigable percussing, dissonant guitar ambling, and onomatopoeic caterwauling, which often sounds more like a second dissonant guitar than any human vocal emanation.