Review: Daniel Munkus – “The Edge of the High Trace” November 24, 2021 Daniel Munkus is a composer/multi-instrumentalist, Peekskill, N.Y.-based recording engineer and Brooklyn College alumnus who is one-third of the electronic looping ensemble Old Robes. This… Continue Reading
Review: Big|Brave – “Vital” May 10, 2021 There are things that rock bands, even the unconventional ones, can get away with in a live setting ― one with a living, breathing… Continue Reading
Review: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – “G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!” April 14, 2021 There’s reason to be excited – truly ecstatic, even – for the new LP from Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The record, titled G_d’s Pee… Continue Reading
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
Review: Pray For Sound – “Waves” November 6, 2019 Sorry, I don’t dig on proselytizing. So, okay I’m biased. And when I heard, via advance PR notes, that the quartet Pray For Sound… Continue Reading
Review: Efrim Manuel Menuck – “Pissing Stars” February 2, 2018 There’s much to celebrate about Pissing Stars, the second solo LP – out today on Constellation Records – from Godspeed You! Black Emperor and… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – “Luciferian Towers” September 22, 2017 It’s starting to become the definition of stasis. Godspeed You! Black Emperor released a new LP, Luciferian Towers, the band’s sixth, today on Constellation… Continue Reading
REVIEW: HC-B – “Rough” July 29, 2015 It takes a great record to remind me how awkward it can be — yes yes, like dancing to architecture — to write about really good instrumental… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress April 21, 2015 Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress, the latest Constellation offering from Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the second full-length since its much anticipated 2010 reformation,… Continue Reading
