Review: June of 44: “Revisionist …” August 18, 2020 Revisionist: Adaptations & Future Histories in the Time of Love and Survival, June of 44’s first release in 21 years, might be the most… 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: Meeting With Hans – “Genius Loci” August 8, 2019 Multi-instrumentalist Tomas Svoboda is clearly out to toy with listeners’ expectations of recording fidelity. The Czech musician’s third LP as Meeting With Hans –… Continue Reading
Review: Perch- “No Step” January 8, 2019 Call it math rock with more hooks than a tackle box. The new LP from the U.K. quartet Perch — No Step, self-released and out… Continue Reading
Review: Expires – “Fake Sigils” December 22, 2017 Pittsburgh has never been known, particularly, as a hub for post-rock, that fluid genre of “music for people who read books” that flirts with… Continue Reading
PROFILE: King G and The J Krew October 10, 2017 Twenty five years ago today, the beat was born. It was the sound of young adults from Louisville – a sprawling collection of collaborators,… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Heron – “You Are Here Now” May 16, 2017 To hear some good reverb-drenched post-rock on the radio dial or the event horizon, you can do a heck of a lot worse than… 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: We Only Said – “Boring Pools” January 23, 2015 It’s hard to believe We Only Said operates nearly 4,100 miles outside Louisville, once- and always-home of post-rock icons Slint and Rodan. They just… Continue Reading
