Review: David Grubbs/Taku Unami – “Comet Meta” June 1, 2020 In “Heart of the Thrumming House”, the fourth track off the new David Grubbs and Taku Unami collaboration, Comet Meta, listeners can be forgiven for feeling… Continue Reading
Review: El Ten Eleven – “Tautology I” May 8, 2020 The first chapter in El Ten Eleven‘s new three-part musical journey seems to be written entirely in the third person and drained of all impulse… Continue Reading
Profile: Same (2020) May 5, 2020 Playing guitar in an indie-rock band in 2020 requires some genre knowledge and a lot of muscle memory, that ability to reproduce the fingers… Continue Reading
Review: Magnetic Ghost – “Pixels” March 13, 2020 There are many spots where one can enter Pixels, the new LP from Magnetic Ghost, the nom de guerre of Minneapolis multi-instrumentalist Andy Larson. I… Continue Reading
Review: Caspian – “On Circles” January 30, 2020 The New England-bred post-rock outfit Caspian get about a quarter of the way into “Flowers of Light”, the second song off On Circles, before the electric… Continue Reading
Review: Raphael Weinroth-Browne – “Worlds Within” January 17, 2020 Reconsideration, at least in this writer’s case, has been very kind to Raphael Weinroth-Browne. I was introduced last year to the Canadian cellist and… Continue Reading
Review: Le Petite Mort – “Disco” January 10, 2020 The name of the song is “A Piano In The Basement” and, though it closes the 13-track record, it’s the best point where you… Continue Reading
Review: Paranoid Void – “02” December 27, 2019 Wow! Just wow. The new Paranoid Void EP – which hides behind the dubiously simple title of 02, out online this week – will… Continue Reading
Review: The Glad Husbands – “Safe Places” December 20, 2019 Everything that’s muddy-minded about Safe Places – the new LP from Italian mathcore trio The Glad Husbands, out four days ago on CD and… 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
