The A-side here is exactly as it seems, but so much more than it sounds on paper. Large Plants is a solo work by Jack Sharp from Wolf People, and his uncannily…
Without a doubt, one of the most affecting records I’ve heard this year is Joseph Allred’s Branches and Leaves. Quite a few of the Massachusetts songwriter’s works have come cross my speakers…
I got caught up with family last week, but that’s no reason not to round back on this excellent new single from SF’s Sad Eyed Beatniks. “Ring Around Annie” heralds the Beatniks’…
The year’s been plenty good for free jazz as it is, but this one might come at the pinnacle. Arriving at the crossroads of psych-scooped brain fry and body high jazz thrum,…
This is a nice surprise this week. I’ve been a fan of UK psych collective Soundcarriers for sometime, but really latched hold on their Ghost Box release Entropicalia from 2018. The band…
One of the things I’ve missed most about the drought of shows in the last year is digging through the lineups on posters for openers, but as they’ve crept back its allowed…
I’m definitely going to have to crack into this one in full, but for now this is too good not to bring up and share. Italian psych unit Al Doum & The…
I first came to Sotelo’s works in 2019, with his excellently off-kilter pop for Upset The Rhythm on Infinite Sprawling. Where that album was a conversation between curdled keys and rubberized guitar,…
A good week around here for Sam Balsucci of Mapache channeling the spirits of the past. As the band’s album 3 is released today, covering a wide swath of faves, he unveils…
This one seems to have slipped out a bit quietly for Stateside folks. I came backwards to The Wave Pictures through faves The Surfing Magazines, but the pastoral charms of the band…
Last year Traffik Island’s Zak Olsen steered his solo project away from its folk roots and into the arms of sweaty, late night funk figures with shades of Big Beat looming large.…
Last year saw Danish psych label El Paraiso dig further into the jazz tangent that’s been bubbling over there in the past few years. 2020 saw the release of two albums by…
Been meaning to get a moment with this one. This is billed as the second tape from Karl Frog, an amateur musician from Canberra/Estonia coming out through Al Montfort’s Hidiotic label, though…
After almost three decades as the face of Comet Gain, David Christian strikes out solo, aiming to brush aside a bit of the cheekiness of the Gain and embrace earnestness. Decamping to…
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