Album Review

There are two kinds of nostalgia records. One kind treats the past like a museum exhibit: everything behind glass, perfectly preserved, spiritually dead. The other treats it like a toolbox; something you can reach into, grab a sound, and start building something new with it. The Unreasonables belongs firmly in the second camp. This is […]

By the time a jazz group reaches its third album, there’s usually a choice to be made. You either double down on the sound that earned you attention in the first place, or you take the riskier route and ask questions your earlier work only hinted at. With Feux, Theorem of Joy chooses the latter

WATCHING THE WORLD GO BY is the kind of album that sneaks up on you; not because it’s quiet, but because it’s patient. Jernej Zoran’s seventh full-length record since 2012 doesn’t announce itself as a grand statement so much as it calmly sets up a chair, plugs in a guitar, and waits for you to

In today’s landscape, it’s not just about the skills because we are all skilled enough to create music. It’s now a battle of character and identity, but what if the artist decided to showcase multiple identities just because they can? I’m talking about JeezJesus and his brand new LP, Somewhere Between Love & Misery. Join

I have to be completely honest. Listening to a metal album can be really tiring. Some albums feel like we can just remix each song because they all sound the same, but The Dawn Razor’s latest album, ‘In Sublime Presence’, is, for me, an exception. Join me as I discuss this LP in length and

There’s a rare kind of confidence that comes from building something entirely on your own and Bury The Pines wear that confidence like armor. Their debut full-length, Industry Plant, doesn’t sound like a first record. It sounds like a proof of concept; that a band can throw post-hardcore, progressive rock, math rock, and pure emotional

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