If you listened to Diiv for the first time ever today, the band fronted by Zachary Cole Smith might sound like run-of-the-mill dream-pop. However, its 2012 debut Album Reviews
Diiv
Is the Is Are
February 8th, 2016 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
If you listened to Diiv for the first time ever today, the band fronted by Zachary Cole Smith might sound like run-of-the-mill dream-pop. However, its 2012 debut
Nathaniel Bellows
The Old Illusions
February 5th, 2016 | by Richard Sanford | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Nathaniel Bellows’ The Old Illusions casts this acclaimed poet and librettist in a singer-songwriter mode reminiscent of Greg Brown. His lush, warm baritone
Danzig
Skeletons
January 18th, 2016 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
While there probably isn’t a specific reason for his rejuvenation, Danzig has seemed to gain a second wind late in his career. He has fully embraced his
Ty Segall
Ty Rex
December 17th, 2015 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Anybody who is familiar with Ty Segall could probably namedrop another artist to which he owes at least a fraction of his sound. (Let’s say The Stooges, for
Six Organs of Admittance
Hexadic II
December 14th, 2015 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
If you do something for long enough, you’re going to want to switch it up. If you’re a comedian, it might be taking on a juicy dramatic roll. If you’re Liam Neeson
Wreckless Eric
amERICa
December 7th, 2015 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Wreckless Eric, born Eric Goulden, is one of those guys who just can’t stop. Emerging in the ’70s as part of a Stiff Records roster that included Nick Lowe
Matt Bauer
Dream’s End
December 2nd, 2015 | by Richard Sanford | published in Album Reviews | 1 Comment »
Matt Bauer’s Dream’s End arrives just in time to echo and contest the dying leaves and sense of promise in the autumn air. Throughout the album, the listener
Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs
Coulda Shoulda Woulda
November 25th, 2015 | by Nate Knaebel | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
While Holly Golightly is frequently given the moniker of “the queen of UK garage rock,” or some derivation thereof, for awhile now her records
Anna von Hausswolff
The Miraculous
November 24th, 2015 | by Richard Sanford | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Anna von Hausswolff’s The Miraculous is a sprawling, glittering marvel of texture and architecture. It’s a questing, yearning record of a sometimes quixotic
Beach Slang
The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us
November 19th, 2015 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Records like the one Beach Slang recently released are few and far between in contemporary rock. Like on their preceding EPs, here