Review: Musk Ox – “Inheritance” August 3, 2021 Inheritance, the third outing from Canadian chamber folk trio Musk Ox and the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2014 LP, Woodfall, begins modestly with the… Continue Reading
Review: Erik Della Penna – “Rainy” July 13, 2021 Ladies and gentlemen, Gotham’s antique-garde marches onward! Though banjo tinkerer and carnival barker/band leader Curtis Eller continues to rage raggedy in the North Carolina… Continue Reading
Review: Raphael Weinroth-Browne – “Worlds Within Live” July 13, 2021 What can we learn when a musician re-records a post-classical solo work, without an audience, then bills it and releases it as a live… Continue Reading
Review: Ramona Cordova – “Naive” July 6, 2021 Home recording has been a blessing to the indie world, a truly democratizing force in a musical toolkit constructed out of DIY ethos. Yes,… Continue Reading
Review: Brainiac – “Attic Tapes” June 24, 2021 Musical polymath Tim Taylor shuffled off this mortal coil way back on May 23, 1997, killed in a car crash in his 30th year of… Continue Reading
Review: Black MIDI – “Cavalcade” June 24, 2021 Calculated tumult. No two words in the language English better sum up the much-anticipated second full-length LP from black midi, Britain’s more aspirational and… Continue Reading
Holy Hell: ‘Standards’ is 20 June 24, 2021 A standard reveals a specified level of quality, and is used to measure or model, to compare, to connote. In musical terms, it’s a… Continue Reading
Review: Damien Jurado – “The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania” June 10, 2021 “The world is a liar/ the stars are a must.” So whispers the iconic singer-songwriter Damien Jurado on the opener to The Monster Who… Continue Reading
Review: Loscil – “Clara” June 10, 2021 With Clara, the sound sculptor Scott Morgan continues to astound. Morgan’s latest LP as loscil – short, for the record, for “looping oscillator” –… Continue Reading
Review: David Grubbs/Loren Connors – “Arborvitae” June 7, 2021 Experimental guitar master Loren Connors and post-rock godfather David Grubbs recorded Arborvitae, a five-song suite and the duo’s only collaboration in a commercial studio,… Continue Reading
