Review: The Casket Lottery – “Short Songs for End Times” November 19, 2020 At 6:27, the album-closing “Sad Dream” is by far the longest, most ambitious and most uncharacteristic song on Short Songs for End Times, the second post-hiatus… Continue Reading
Review: David Grubbs – “October 19, 2017” November 13, 2020 6 April 2020, “The Quarantine Concerts”: This is the first time I remember hearing David Grubbs like this, and I was unmoored by the presentation and… Continue Reading
Review: Mr. Bungle – “The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo” November 4, 2020 Talk about being locked and loaded with enough context and rotting fruit to fill a stadium. The core members of once- (and future-?) postmodern… Continue Reading
Review: Bad Wires – “Politics of Attraction” October 13, 2020 Politics of Attraction, the full-length debut from Louisville power trio Bad Wires, is a Frankenstein’s monster of a rock record. The group, technically adept but… Continue Reading
Review: Kronos Quartet – “Long Time Passing” October 13, 2020 Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger might seem, on the surface of things, like a noble attempt to celebrate or further… Continue Reading
Review: El Ten Eleven – “Tautology III” September 29, 2020 A kick-drum in the shape of a heartbeat appears some seven minutes into El Ten Eleven’s Tautology III, the final piece of its ambitious instrumental,… Continue Reading
Review: Landowner – “Consultant” September 23, 2020 Landowner‘s second LP, Consultant, is a beautiful bundle of chewed-raw nerves, with intensely geometric post-punk motifs providing the razor to scrape back and forth over… Continue Reading
Review: Exhalants – “Atonement” September 21, 2020 This year has become a Groundhogs Day of Nightly News shitshows in much of the Western world, but 2020 (we’ll give it this much)… Continue Reading
Review: Skeletons – “If The Cat Come Back” September 15, 2020 Matt Mehlan, leader of the self-described Skeletons b(r)and, has carved an underground career out of loose-limbed but densely constructed polyrhythmic rock-art that in its… Continue Reading
Review: Twisted Pine – “Right Now” September 14, 2020 On Twisted Pine’s self-titled debut, from 2017, the Boston trio unfurled master classes in Appalachian balladry with folk gems like “Lose My Love.” On… Continue Reading
