Category: Reviews

There’s a surprising buoyancy to the new El Ten Eleven LP. While the post-rock band’s previous efforts, especially 2020’s Tautology trilogy, have dwelled in the chambers…

There’s something deceptively airy about a Pan American record. Mark Nelson of Labradford, under whom the project has long operated, creates highly textured, atmospheric, and low-pulse guitar…

Listeners will get about ten seconds into Perennial’s In the Midnight Hour, the guitar feedback swirling defiantly and menacingly, before the Connecticut-based art punks drop…

As “comeback records” go, the new Urge Overkill LP is pretty matter-of-fact about its conceits and very plain about its intentions. Oui is Urge Overkill’s first…

After a dozen or so listens, “Moon Seems Lost”, a romantic and sometimes-unassuming ballad, started ascending as the finest tune off Glenn Echo’s 2021…

Talk about a Covid-19 record. Think back, way back, to November 2020, that first year of the pandemic, when everything was fingering a fresh…

David Allred’s Driving Through the Aftermath of a Storm on a Clear Day is a strange, enveloping little record. Meditative to a T, the LP’s 11…

The song begins with a guitar line wonderfully characteristic of post-rock guru David Grubbs, mellifluous and storied. Then, Will Oldham enters like a specter,…

Feral Vices, a guitar-and-drum alt-rock duo from Louisville, make catchy, Spotify-ready rock anthems underlined with fist-pumping grooves and more than a fair share of…

Cyrano de Bergerac features the title character, a real-life – in some tellings, deformed – man here fictionalized, falling for a lovely maiden, Roxanne. He…