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,…
I’ve been remiss in mentioning this compilation of San Francisco band Flowertown’s excellent EPs. Originally issued over the course of 2020 on cassette, the Theresa Street and eponymous EPs are bound together…
On their last album WEEED moved beyond the stoner rock tags that get hung on them to push further into Cosmic Americana, morotik ripples, and spacious psychedelia. It seems that they’re only…
The enigmatic debut from Canadian songwriter Kass Richards snuck out at the tail end of last year on Good Cry Records and just as quietly sold out. Thankfully, though, it met the…
The last few offerings from Frank Maston have focused on his penchant for library funk, synth slink, and all manner of instrumental bliss. He’s breaking that mold with the second single from…
There’s a blurred vision aesthetic to the debut from The Holy Family. That particular vision comes from the mind of David J. Smith and over the course of his eponymous LP for…
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