Category: Reviews

Call it a question of what lens you use to view the thing. Folk audiences, real folk devotees, will embrace and champion the debut…

Listeners’ verdicts on Motherhood’s second LP will come down to their hot takes on what surrounds “Tabletop.” The song, the fourth track off the…

I wish I first heard Damien Jurado’s new LP with 16-year-old ears. There’s a time when music is boundless and joy-inducing and magical, and,…

Rachael McElhiney offers an odd kind of back-handed caveat to the seemingly decisive title of her new EP, I Love It Here, by mentioning the…

How cerebral an experience, really, is listening to an Andrew Bird record? The singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and well-known whistler’s new LP, Inside Problems, rarely if ever…

Ladies and gentlemen: Girls Against Boys is back. It’s been nine long years since the New York noise rockers released The Ghost List EP and it’s…

It’s about seven songs into the new Frog Eyes “comeback” LP – its first since 2018’s curtain-call Violet Psalms, a three-year hiatus, and frontman Carey…

Here’s the tea leaf reading for all of those cribbing notes on the career of Calexico: El Mirador, the once-Tucson-based collective’s 10th studio LP, is…

In a word: disquieting. It’s not like a blood-splattered horror film sequence, though the theatricality and melodrama clearly – some might say “defiantly” –…

What or who is Rolo Tomassi? In this age of musical uber-categorization and hyper-contextualization, it remains kind of tough to say, actually. When the…