Wade Easy has been moving quickly, but Honey Venom doesn’t sound rushed. As his third album in under a year, the record continues the Appalachian psychedelia of Sleeping With the Sun On and Sea of Night while shifting the emphasis towards something more sensual, stripped-back and tactile. Across ten tracks, he combines hazy guitar, loose rhythmsContinue Reading
There’s a satisfying sense of progression running through The Ingredient. The Venus Children’s debut album begins with urgency and impact, then gradually turns inward, allowing its harder edges to give way to something more reflective and emotionally exposed. Throughout this new collection, the band have built it to move through differentContinue Reading
With her new collection ‘RECALIBRATED’, Amana Melome’ revisits the material from Recalibration from a noticeably different perspective. Where the original album focused on reflection, reconnection and personal change, this companion project is lighter on its feet, using rhythm and reinterpretation to explore what comes after that process. The collection moves across deep house,Continue Reading
Martin Kuiper’s Prison Of Modesty brings together songs written across more than thirty years, making it a record shaped as much by reflection as by composition. Some of its earliest material dates back to 1998, while other songs were completed much later, giving the album a naturally broad perspective on relationships, ambition,Continue Reading
After nearly four decades, Bloodkin have accumulated the kind of history that inevitably shapes any new record. Flowers & Ash arrives as the first album the Athens, Georgia band has made following the death of founding member Daniel Hutchens in 2021, and that loss forms an important part of the record’s emotionalContinue Reading
There’s something especially captivating about a record that begins with simplicity and gradually grows into something far stranger than originally intended. And on his latest album One Hundred Billion Points of Light, Bay Area artist Valley Taylor takes that journey in full, transforming the bare bones of intimate home demos intoContinue Reading
There’s something deeply affecting about hearing an artist turn personal collapse into creative momentum, and on Living in Dadeland, Michael Cohen does exactly that. What begins as a record about love and heartbreak gradually becomes a story about memory, persistence, reinvention and the strange ways we try to make sense ofContinue Reading
Sean MacLeod has never sounded particularly interested in separating thought from melody, and That’s When the Earth Becomes a Star pushes that instinct further than ever. Across his fifth solo album, the Irish singer-songwriter folds questions of identity, alienation and transformation into music that remains warm, melodic and remarkably approachable. His ownContinue Reading
There’s this great line running through This Monologue Conversation. For all its anxiety about conformity, fear and human contradiction, the record itself only exists because three friends refused to let it disappear. It’s an angle that gives I Plead Irony’s third album a satisfying sense of stubbornness. Rauf Jordan, Paul McDonaldContinue Reading
Nils Lassen’s Rain Steam Speed is an album in constant motion, but never in a hurry. Across eleven songs, the Danish composer follows the course of a single day, using shifting light, birdsong, rain and beautifully layered arrangements to explore love against the uncertainty of a changing world. The title takes itsContinue Reading