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
Feature: Rediscover “Gone Glimmering” October 23, 2021 In the mid-1990s, while math rock’s Don Caballero moved forward a modus operandi of the complicated, inverted time signatures culled from Slint’s Spiderland, others were… 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: Mogwai – “As the Love Continues” February 24, 2021 “Mogwai have advanced without a plan since they were teenagers; there have been no secretive meetings to work out the master plan.” So begins… Continue Reading
Review: The Underflow – “Instant Opaque Evening” February 18, 2021 The nearly 90-minute journey listeners take on underground super-trio the Underflow’s new live LP, Instant Opaque Evening, is most assuredly a varied and eclectic one…. Continue Reading
Review: Slint – “Breadcrumb Trail” b/w “Good Morning, Captain” February 12, 2021 It will take a pair or two of solid elephant’s ears to hear the microscopic distinctions between Slint‘s Spiderland, post-rock’s mighty Rosetta Stone, and the 1990… Continue Reading
Feature: Holy Hell – “Very Soon, and In Pleasant Company” is 20! February 8, 2021 In a word, precision. The three years that separate Rodan’s Rusty (1994) from the Shipping News debut Save Everything (1997) gave Jeff Mueller and Jason Noble, the Louisville-bred… Continue Reading
Review: Chris Brokaw – “Puritan” January 22, 2021 Chris Brokaw’s onto something. The post-rock mainstay (Codeine, Come) and longtime supporting player (everyone from Thurston Moore to G.G. Allin) borrows the title from… Continue Reading
Review: El Ten Eleven – “Tautology III” September 29, 2020 A kick-drum in the shape of a heartbeat appears some seven minutes into El Ten Eleven’s Tautology III, the final piece of its ambitious instrumental,… Continue Reading
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
