One of my favorite albums of 2022 has to be the Third Man debut from Rich Ruth. The Nashville composer has created a psychedelic jazz behemoth that’s rife with nuance. Ruth battles…
Like many, I’ve been revisiting the golden era of psychedelic scorch that’s come out of the early aughts over the past few years. Something in the air seems ripe for a revival…
The second single from One Eleven Heavy’s upcoming album Poolside swerves towards choogle a bit more than the last. With an air of Southern charms in its low slung guitar and barroom…
Stephen Pierce’s Gold Dust has been on my radar for some time. The solo guise of the Kindling guitarist finds him in much calmer waters, embracing a sun-bathed folk form. While his…
Still feel like Mythic Sunship doesn’t get enough shouts in the States. The Copenhagen band were longtime members of the El Paraiso stable and have moved to Tee Pee for their last…
There’s been a steady stream of works from rootless over the past few years, some expansive like the ambience-heavy Docile Cobras, others more pensive and spare with Hurewitz focusing solely on fingerpicked…
The excellent Beautify Junkyards release a new single for Ghost Box today. The included cuts are culled from their recent concert film Cosmorama Moving Images, a live in the studio set the…
Drag City sends out another dip into the upcoming live album from Wand. The band has long used the live setting to unwind their typically meticulous psych but this marks the first…
Another great peek into the upcoming Marissa Anderson album lands this week with a darker turn. “The Fire This Time” finds the guitarist paying homage to Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time. Written…
Each new Badge Époque Ensemble release has unlocked more of the band’s undeniable charms. Growing from a primarily instrumental psych-jazz enclave into a band that’s come to embrace, soul, lounge, psych-pop, and…
The moniker ML Wah has caught a lot of sides of Matt LaJoie — from his noisier folk moments to stark piano compositions that cropped up last year. It’s served as a…
Spanish jangle-pop outfit The Boys With the Perpetual Nervousness return for a third round and it’s another stunner packed with hooks and an impeccable sense of pop ennui. The band does its…
After an incredible run of collaborations, with Lynn Avery and Nat Harvie, Cole Pulice returns to a solo outing with their latest, Scry. The first peek into the album come via the…
Psych-soul duo Abraxas embrace a midnight surf simmer on their latest single “Mañana.” The duo of Carolina Faruolo (ex-Los Bitchos) and Danny Lee Blackwell (Night Beats) let the neon drip down the…
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