Review: TRVSS – “Instant Drugs” November 5, 2021 The ascendant noise-rock trio TRVSS has a potent little drug ditty percolating that’s about to harsh your mellow. Titled (yes, appropriately) “Instant Drugs,” the… Continue Reading
Review: Clara Engel – “Dressed In Borrowed Light” August 24, 2021 Clara Engel makes skeletal music whose bizarre sense of Minimalist scale is only outstripped by the haunted and almost foreboding nature of the soundscapes… Continue Reading
Review: Stuck – “Change Is Bad” June 3, 2020 Holy mother of fuck, how did this one slip below the radar? Born Yesterday Records released the Chicago quartet Stuck’s debut LP, Change Is Bad,… Continue Reading
Review: Ryan Rumery – “And, Apart” March 24, 2020 Multi-instrumentalist Ryan Rumery’s emotive music always has traded in a kind of nuance, with even his most emphatic statements – which often are bookmarked… Continue Reading
Review: Amanda Palmer – “Forty-Five Degrees” February 26, 2020 Amanda Palmer doesn’t waste much time getting going on her new record – and she doesn’t pull any punches. On the first song out… Continue Reading
Review: Wet Fruit – S/T December 6, 2019 The songs just skitter away in a delightful pop of Roman candles on Wet Fruit’s self-titled, debut LP, out last week on digital and… Continue Reading
Profile: Revival Choir (2019) October 15, 2019 Sean Atkins understates things. His band, Revival Choir, quietly released its debut LP, Finn, in September. Nobody ever shot-gunned out press releases, blitzed social media… Continue Reading
Review: Eric Bachmann – “Misinformation Age” October 9, 2019 Only Eric Bachmann could make rage over the Trump era’s alienating 24-hour-a-day mind-fuck seem elegiac. His new, one-off single, “Misinformation Age,” out yesterday via… Continue Reading
Profile: Chariot Fade (2019) October 1, 2019 When Chariot Fade formed earlier this year, it was contained mostly to three musicians and two rooms of home-recording equipment. Listening to the pristine… Continue Reading
Review: Rachael McElhiney – “Apricot Trees” June 12, 2019 “You gotta bleed a little bit to put on the show,” Rachael McElhiney sings on a track from Apricot Trees, an EP of four,… Continue Reading
