Ah another new cut slips out from the upcoming Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders LP. The eponymous album is a turn away from the band’s recent live sets which explore some…
Another track rolls in from one of my most anticipated records of the year, Scott Hirsch’s Windless Day. Hirch’s last album was a total favorite around here and the new album expands…
It’s a day for longtime favorites around here and this one comes from Justin Wright’s altar of ash Expo ’70. Though that’s not right, here on Evolution, as the album is rightly…
Savage Young Taterbug has been a favorite around here back since his Night People Tapes days and its nice to see a new single eke out from Charles Free this week. As…
Good news for guitar benders today with the announcement of a new release from Ryley Walker’s Husky Pants label. Walker’s no slouch in the collaboration department, having worked out duos over the…
Quite a lovely collaboration today between Jack Name and Irish artist Aoife Nessa Frances. With a mutual appreciation for one another’s work spurring the two to do a duet, the pair unleash…
From the first notes of The Goon Sax’s third album the tone is darker, or perhaps that’s not the word. Thicker, might be closer to the idea. The band’s previous albums bent…
Toronto’s Motorists divine a classic guitar pop pulse, imbuing their first single “Through To You,” and subsequently, their debut LP with ringing guitars and an insistent ache. The band finds the through…
Following up on his 2019 LP for Castle Face, Nolan Potter (Knife Ritual, Lake of Fire) returns with a slinked-out piece of baroque psychedelia that feels like the offspring of Nightmare Forever.…
It’s hard to not find quite a heavy bit of crossover between the constantly re-configuring, Canterbury-influenced prog epics in COS’ catalog and the output of someone like Gong, who were ingesting some…
Can’t go wrong with some newness out of Trouble in Mind and the label’s latest lands among the ranks of the post-punk roster that’s been amassing over the last few years. If…
All three players on the upcoming Gerycz/Powers/Rolin LP are heading into at least their second essential album of 2021. Riding high off of recent releases by Powers/Rolin duo and Monocot, the trio…
Having already released one of the year’s best LPs solo, Rosali Middleman aims for a second slot on the tally with the debut from her duo Monocot with Jayson Gerycz (Cloud Nothings).…
Ringing out in an explosion of Paisley Pop, the new single from veteran psych-poppers The Prefab Messiahs pairs an infectious chorus with humming leads. The Byrds-ian jangles are pulled through the prism,…
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