Review: Human Impact – S/T March 12, 2020 Imagine an orgy scored by rusty industrial equipment blasting New York City noise-rock, something like Unsane, Cop Shoot Cop, or Swans in their wicked… Continue Reading
Review: Amanda Palmer – “Forty-Five Degrees” February 26, 2020 Amanda Palmer doesn’t waste much time getting going on her new record – and she doesn’t pull any punches. On the first song out… Continue Reading
Review: MELK – S/T February 21, 2020 It’s really easy to drink the Spencer Kilpatrick Kool-Aid. The Reno-based singer-songwriter has an amazing, even intoxicating handle on pitch-perfect period strut – in… Continue Reading
Review: Paracute for Gordo – “Best Understood by Children and Animals” February 14, 2020 Post-rock boasts a long lineage of outfits driven by glassy guitars. Though birthed from the oft-unpredictable, highly surrounding-soaked likes of Talk Talk’s Laughing Stock, Television’s Marquee… Continue Reading
Review: Mezcla – “Shoot The Moon” February 10, 2020 David Bowden knows how to wring some delicious elasticity from the electric bass – the key feature on his band Mezcla‘s debut LP, Shoot the Moon…. Continue Reading
Review: Phavors – “Petals” February 5, 2020 It’s real tough to find inspiration in central New Jersey. I can vouch – I spent the bulk of my youth in suburban Monmouth… Continue Reading
Review: Caspian – “On Circles” January 30, 2020 The New England-bred post-rock outfit Caspian get about a quarter of the way into “Flowers of Light”, the second song off On Circles, before the electric… Continue Reading
Review: Raphael Weinroth-Browne – “Worlds Within” January 17, 2020 Reconsideration, at least in this writer’s case, has been very kind to Raphael Weinroth-Browne. I was introduced last year to the Canadian cellist and… Continue Reading
Review: Le Petite Mort – “Disco” January 10, 2020 The name of the song is “A Piano In The Basement” and, though it closes the 13-track record, it’s the best point where you… Continue Reading
Review: House & Hawk – “Pure Emotion” EP January 7, 2020 I still harbor conflicted emotions about Mick Jagger Solo Album, the A-for-effort 2016 LP of synthetic pop from House & Hawk. At times inventive… Continue Reading
