While there’s been a steady stream of Snock-related releases over the past few years – live records and reissues of lost classics like Blue Navigator, it’s been a while since Hurley hit…
Hey no one ever said that just because the ‘favorites’ list is up that the year is done. There’s still more 2021 left and there are still more albums on my queue…
A little late-year treat out of Ohio as a follow-up single to the young band’s sorely overlooked debut In This Town slides out last week. The band’s jangled charms are in full…
Not only was it a good year for albums and EPs, but I’m always scouring or good reissues that stray from the the obvious. This year wasn’t as packed as it could…
Despite being a terrible year by most metrics, 2021 has been an amazing year for recorded music. As I sat down to work out this list, I truly had a hard time…
Got a new ripper today from Japanese punks Nicfit, out soon on Upset The Rhythm. The Nagoya band funnel an older spirit of punk, pulled taut on the tensile pulse of Wire,…
Falling somewhere between the atmospheric country that’s found life between the glint of 2020 and 2021 (SUSS, Barry Walker Jr., Nashville Ambient Ensemble) and a more earthen scrape to the senses from…
Aussie songwriter Grace Cummings is heading into her sophomore LP with a stellar run of singles and as of yesterday the album’s title track has landed with a dark and dramatic video…
Some weeks there’s just too much for me to absorb, but this one’s been kicking below the fray of my list of things to talk about for the last week or so.…
This was an exciting surprise announcement a few weeks back, as the band’s 2020 LP was one of my top albums of the year. The band comes screaming back into the tail…
Pretty excited to see this one pop up yesterday. Los Angeles’ Color Green put out a truly promising EP last year and I’ve been waiting for any new crumbs ever since. The…
It’s been quite a few years since I’ve had a Doozer record on the deck, at least since his 2012 Woodsist offering Keep It Together, but its great to see that the…
A couple of new tracks out yesterday from the excellent new Jake Xerxes Fussell record, just more reason to get this one on your radar for early next year. Fussell’s long been…
It seems that Modern Nature has taken the idea of the album as artpiece and run with it this year, slashing back at a trend away from the physical with an album…
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