Ruins – Pure at Heart (Album Review)
Ruins are a Liverpudlian alternative pop-duo who create emotive soundscapes with rock-steady drum machines, gentle guitars, and falsetto vocals. Vocalist Lloyd Rock has a dulcet and high-pitched voice, and when…
Saun Santipreecha – Dandelye (Album Review)
LA-based Thai musician Saun Santipreecha knows about dichotomies. His recent album “Dandelye” juxtaposes surreal ambient soundscapes with mysterious musical structures across six tracks of sprawling scope. Dandelye is an anglicized…
Le Days – Stuck In My Head (Album Review)
Le Days is the moniker of Swedish experimental musician Daniel Hedin, and his visceral new album “Stuck In My Head (Alternate Recordings)” takes the listener to the depths of his…
Jack Goldstein – The World Is Ending and I Love U (Album Review)
War in Ukraine, inflation, rising temperatures, and a widening political divide between left and right. One has many reasons to feel an apocalyptic dread when considering our outlook. On “The…
The Birthday Letters – Yearning for Vitalists (Album Review)
Vitalism is a belief that living things and non-living things are fundamentally different. Living things have souls, or what vitalists call “élan vital”. It sounds harmless, but according to Dr…
Single Reviews: 23 June 2022: Quade, Gurf, Play Dead, Zueva, Sigmund Faust
Photo by Athena Quade – Spiral art rock A single in two parts, “Spiral” by Bristol four-piece art-rock outfit Quade is a mysterious musical endeavour, combining post-rock, neoclassical, and spoken…
Rachel Sermanni – Every Swimming Pool Runs to the Sea (EP Review)
In 2015, professor Mark Hamilton from the University of Connecticut published a paper titled “Astrology as a culturally transmitted heuristic scheme for understanding seasonality effects: a response to Genovese (2014)”.…
Restless Mosaic – Made by Thawing Ice (Album Review)
The history of mosaic art can be traced back to the 3rd millennium BC when temples in Mesopotamia were decorated with seashells and stones. While abstract, these primitive works birthed…
Single Reviews 13th June 2022: Alex Crispin, Evening is Youth, Calle 63, Welcome Strawberry, Kritters x FILLY
Photo by Emma Filer Alex Crispin – Listen & Learn alternative/jazz From Norwich, UK, Alex Crispin absolutely delights on this cut from his forthcoming self-titled album. The groovy intro and…
Willowbranches (Interview)
Carnation Lily Lily Rose by Willowbranches Willowbranches is the nom de plume of Salem, MA resident Ryan Walter. His debut EP, Carnation Lily Lily Rose, showcases a sonic sensibility and…