Album Review

With recent album ‘Pertinax’, Suris, composed of Lindsey and David Mackiemade a record that was almost embarrassingly earnest. It didn’t wink at you. It didn’t sound like it was written by a committee trying to forecast next week’s Spotify trend. It just existed, lush and vulnerable, the sound of two people who actually cared. The […]

Andrew Savage’s Patchwork is the kind of debut album that sounds like it was recorded by three people who wandered into a studio, shrugged collectively, and said, “Yeah, that seems in tune enough.” And I mean that in the most complimentary way possible. It’s unpolished, a little wobbly, very human and brilliant. This is an

There’s a particular kind of indie project that feels less like an album and more like someone documenting their nervous system in real time. …Sacrifice, Jay2n’s self-written, self-produced hip hop experiment, fits squarely into that category, but in the best way. It doesn’t swagger or posture or dress itself up as something hyper-polished. Instead, it

In my years of reviewing and critiquing music, I always fumble on the question, “What is the meaning of punk music?” Some say it’s loud and unapologetic music. Others would say it’s about being different, and I can say, it’s all correct. Let Steve White & The Protest Family’s latest LP, Evidence-Based Punk Rock, help

There’s a particular magic to DIY albums, by which I mean the kind of magic you get when someone records an entire emotional exorcism inside a room that is, by every reasonable metric, unfit for human occupation. Around This Edge Together is exactly that sort of project: a nine-track odyssey made inside what The7thGatekeeper calls

There’s something strangely beautiful about an album made entirely in a basement. Not in the romanticized, Hollywood-montage sense, but in the real sense: a probably-too-humid, maybe-questionably-wired below-ground bunker where a man with a guitar and a laptop decided that normalcy was overrated. That man is deadwater, and the result of his subterranean stubbornness is Revelry

It’s a bit of a downplay to call Giuseppe Cucé’s “21 grammi” an album. You know when an artist is serious about their work, and there are not enough words to unearth its depth and meaning? That’s exactly it. It’s the kind that doesn’t just stick but leaves you smirking, intrigued, changed, or even challenged.

There’s something deeply funny and deeply satisfying about watching a lifelong behind-the-scenes wizard finally step out from behind the curtain. AmorA spent years building entire universes for other people: scoring films, shaping sound for video art, and even helping win a Grammy for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. She has been, musically speaking, the person responsible

Re-releasing old songs is usually the domain of artists who’ve either run out of new ideas or desperately need to remind people they still exist; like a high school reunion announcement, but with more reverb. Thankfully, Ripsime is neither of those. Instead, she’s decided to dig up three early tracks in the form of “Dare,”

Debut albums tend to fall into one of two camps: the carefully curated calling card or the unfiltered “here’s everything we’ve ever wanted to shout into the void.” Forever Got A Lot Shorter, the debut LP from south-coast UK outfit Endless Talking, somehow manages to be both and not in the diplomatic, “oh, they’re balancing