Band of Horses – Why Are You OK (2016) review
Band of Horses - Why Are You OK (Interscope Records, 2016) It's easy, with the opening track suggesting a dreamy indie rock soundscape, that listeners might think they’re...
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Luening / Ussachevsky / Bergsma – A Poem In Cycles And Bells & Other Music For Tape Recorder (1958) review
Luening / Ussachevsky / Bergsma - A Poem In Cycles And Bells & Other Music For Tape Recorder (Aurora Rising, 1958/2016) You would never believe this record to...
Teenage Fanclub – Here (2016) review
Teenage Fanclub - Here (Merge, 2016) If the hazy layered harmonic and introverted songs of Teenage Fanclub are the ones that grabbed hold of your soul … then...
Allah-Las – Calico Review (2016) review
Allah-Las - Calico Review (Mexican Summer, 2016) https://allah-las.bandcamp.com/album/calico-review As with their first two gauzy laced-filtered albums, Calico comes off as a collection of sweet memories that have been...
SenjiNiban / The Moth Poets – Live At The River Lounge review
SenjiNiban / The Moth Poets - Live At The River Lounge (Bearsuit Records, 2016) For starters, the title of this split release is a pun [hint: note the...
Electric Octopus – This Is Our Culture (2016) review
Electric Octopus - This Is Our Culture (2016) Dripping with breezy hazed reverb and fuzzed out historic blues references, while interlacing both jazz and psychedelia, Electric Octopus have...
Wilco – Schmilco (2016) review
Wilco - Schmilco (dBpm Records, 2016) Watch out, here they come again with an album you’re either gonna love, hate, or if you’re like this reviewer, you’re gonna...
La Femme – Mystère (2016) review
La Femme - Mystère (Born Bad Records, 2016) The album’s title Mystère is a dead give away as to what you may or may not expect from La Femme, on...
The Seeds – ‘Raw & Alive’ (1968)
A series of missteps in the musical career of The Seeds led to the recording and release of “Raw & Alive: The Seeds In Concert at Merlin’s Box”...
Morgan Delt – Phase Zero (2016) review
Morgan Delt - Phase Zero (Sub Pop Records, 2016) Laying out an neo-psych album drenched in filtered sunlight that’s interrupted by the occasional fluffy cloud, Morgan Delt moves...