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
Profile: Merce Lemon (2020) February 11, 2020 “You think you love me. Well, look at me now.” With those simple words, softly cooed over a carefully plucked sequence of acoustic guitar… 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
Profile: String Machine (2020) January 14, 2020 There are elements of Neutral Milk Hotel’s freak-folk,’90s slowcore, and of Montreal’s cinematic post-rock on Death of the Neon — the second LP from Pittsburgh-area ensemble… 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
Profile: Astrology Now (2020) January 8, 2020 Pittsburgh psych-rock band Astrology Now will celebrate its new Knife EP by playing an acid-tinged set at 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10, with Outsideinside, Silver Car… 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
