Principal San Fermin orchestrator Ellis Ludwig-Leone is no stranger to classical-inflected grandiosity. With songs like the breakout “Sonsick” off Album Reviews
Sam Fermin
Jackrabbit
April 27th, 2015 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Principal San Fermin orchestrator Ellis Ludwig-Leone is no stranger to classical-inflected grandiosity. With songs like the breakout “Sonsick” off
Calexico
Edge of the Sun
April 24th, 2015 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Since 1997, Calexico has lived up to the promise of its name. Drawing on Mexican music traditions, they’ve created a soundtrack to desert living with a dose
Passion Pit
Kindred
April 22nd, 2015 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Passion Pit, the solo project as poptronica band of Michael Angelakos, has always assumed a baby face. As on “I’ll Be Alright,” “Carried Away” (of
Donny McCaslin
Fast Future
April 20th, 2015 | by Richard Sanford | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Donny McCaslin, a leading light as saxophonist and bandleader in contemporary jazz, returns with Fast Future. This new record expands upon and refines the work
Fred Thomas
All Are Saved
April 15th, 2015 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
If you spent even a modicum of time listening to college radio in the early 2000s you likely stumbled upon Michigan’s Saturday Looks Good To Me
Toro y Moi
What For?
April 9th, 2015 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Chaz Bundick’s been flexing his songwriting muscles a lot lately. Under the guise of Les Sins on last year’s Michael and now on his fourth long-player as
Faith Healer
Cosmic Troubles
April 6th, 2015 | by Kevin J. Ellliott | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Jessica Jalbert is a sorceress, but you shouldn't feel out of the loop if you've never heard the name. Doing a little research, one finds that Jalbert released
Van Morrison
Duets: Re-working the Catalogue
April 2nd, 2015 | by Terrence Adams | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Unfortunately, if you make popular music long enough, you get trapped into recording at least one duets album. You will dust off
Liturgy
The Ark Work
April 1st, 2015 | by Richard Sanford | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Liturgy’s first release in four years, The Ark Work, is a profoundly discomfiting record, but one that never hits the levels of profundity it seeks. Opening with
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
Chasing Yesterday
March 31st, 2015 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Oasis had probably one of the strangest break-ups in music history. When the band called it quits in 2009, Liam Gallagher and most