There’s a shrouded mystery at the core of Abronia’s newest offering. The album, formed and forged in the smoke-laced Portland summers, embraces the looming dread that lies on the horizon, letting it…
Over the years Oneida has evolved from a noise-sculpted beast into consummate experimentalists playing with the nature of their sound until it twisted more than tackled the listener. There were plenty of…
Holding up another arm in their ambient/psychedelic wing (North Americans, Luke Schneider), Nashville composer Rich Ruth bursts into view with his psychedelic jazz odyssey I Survived, It’s Over. Mixed by John McEntire…
After the gnarled textures of Water For Frogs, Hooveriii slide back into view with a new single today and a new album on the way that embraces a shinier vision of psych-pop.…
Everyone comes to country in their own time. There’s a point when it just begins to feel right, whether that’s a first heartbreak or the moorings of middle age, the worn down…
Following the blurred vision of alt-country that slipped out on their EP from last year, L.A.’s Dividers settle in for the long player, further obscuring their sound in a layer of hiss…
The debut from Water Damage is both brutal wake up and deep mind hypnotic trip. The band, a septet that includes members of Spray Paint, USA/Mexico, Marriage, Black Eyes, Thor & Friends…
This album from NYC’s GRAY/SMITH pokes through out of nowhere, a dusted tangle from members of Rhyton, Pigeons, The Suntanama and No-Neck Blues Band. With a lean towards Cosmic Americana that’s burnt…
Most might be familiar with Alison Cotton via her more high profile alignments with The Eighteenth Day of May or The Left Outsides, but her solo works have been stacking up over…
A sly announcement on this one fell in the shadow of Kikagaku Moyo’s album release lately, but the off-the-path releases from Guruguru Brain are half the fun. Sounds of Lecak Vol. 1…
This record came with a nice dose of excitement, having been recorded as a crossover between a couple of my Aussie faves — Jake Robertson (School Damage, Ausmuteants) and Violetta Del Conte-Race…
Following a lead-in EP, Triptides reveal some more of their upcoming album So Many Days. Letting the summer breezes push them away from some of their ‘60s jangle-pop and towards something a…
It’s not easy to follow an album as expansive as Do You Fall,? the massive psychedelic offering from WEEED last year. The record centered around multi-part suites that found the band cycling…
After a couple of EPs the first single from Oog Bogo’s upcoming debut creeps out of the cabinets and its a disco-greased shimmy of sleaze pop that makes good on their early…
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