Top-Shelf Pop Shenaniganism – “For My Animals” by American Culture
For some reason, as soon as I start listening to the just-released (on Happy Happy Birthday...
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Artful and Blistering – The Red Step’s Bold Self-Titled Debut
Hold the presses and what the holy hell?! Although somewhat admissible in the warm and fuzzy... -
A Set Sent From Jukebox Heaven – “Everywhere You’ve Been” from Steve Almaas
In the wake of those eruptive, frenetic, game-changing years 1976-1982 (give or take), the trajectories embarked... -
Innovative, A Bit Addictive, and Uniquely Alive – “Prosthuman” from ‘Krautrock guerrillas’ Camera
To some things, one cannot be too late. The discovery of a simmering, latent talent that’s... -
The Implicit Harmony of History: Alpha Cat’s “Pearl Harbor 2020” & Arrica Rose And The …’s “Technicolor Blue”
In the interests of efficiency and a directness that this current moment in history rather insists... -
Opaque Incandescence – “Songs of Love and Revolution” from The Telescopes
For a handful of artists/bands – The Fall, Swans, Kristin Hersh to name a quick three... -
Power and Nuance – The Stunning “Black Swan” Album from Push/Button/Press
There is perhaps nothing that more clearly reveals the essential ‘who’ of who we are than... -
A Blessing Beyond Reckoning – The Palace of Tears’ Debut Full-Length “Of Ruination”
Well, you’ve gotta give us this: when we miss, we miss. Though it was painstakingly acknowledged... -
QUARANTINE AGE KICKS Vol. 8 – “Another World” by The Flat Five & “Thunderclouds” by Louis Philippe & The Night Mail
The Flat Five “Another World” on Pravda Records (released November 13th, 2020) Let’s make this brief.... -
Delightfully Out On A Limb of Their Own – Celebrating the Newly-Remastered Sound of Love Tractor’s Eponymous 1982 Debut
If it weren’t for the fact that I’ve just recently renounced that most vaunted of music...