Zula - "6 Passes" | Album Review
It’s a respectable challenge to describe Zula’s songs with anything other than abstractions: swirling, enveloping, trippy, blissful. 6 Passes feels somewhat more tangible, thanks primarily to a slight uptick in production quality; at their root, though, these are still loose journeys towards some higher state.
Ty Segall Band - "Slaughterhouse" (Reissue) | Album Review
Ada Babar & Kasra Kurt - "Nino Tomorrow" | Album Review
Splits can do many things for the artists who collaborate on them. They can give the chance to complement each other’s sound, highlight each other’s differences, or collectively explore a particular direction. On Ada Babar (Faun and a Pan Flute) and Kasra Kurt’s (Palm) Nino Tomorrow, we find two prolific musicians somehow doing all three simultaneously.
The North Country - "In Defense of Cosmic Altruism" | Album Review
Impalers - "Cellar Dweller" | Album Review
Melkbelly - "Nothing Valley" | Album Review
Sports / Plush - "Split" | Album Review
Radiator Hospital - "Play The Songs You Like" | Album Review
Radiator Hospital’s delightful and vital new album Play The Songs You Like, like many of the best records, functions as a companion for aging amidst the current malaise. Beyond being an exceptional rock album, it is a deeply sentimental look at what happens in any life, from a band that has always excelled on such a minutely grandiose level.
A. Savage - "Thawing Dawn" | Album Review
Weed Hounds - "Double Life" | Album Review
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.
