art rock
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Italy’s Blue Willa has an eerie style that I’m digging a lot on this self-titled record of theirs. The folk-inspired simplicity, dissonant guitars, and sharp howls of the project’s frontwoman are all too potent to deny. Enjoy!
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I won’t say Push The Sky Away is Nick Cave’s darkest album yet, but it’s easily one of his most depressing–so much so that Cave himself seems too shaken to engage his listeners with the same emotional potency he usually does. WATCH THE REVIEW
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CLASSICS WEEK: Decades after its release, In the Court of the Crimson King still stands tall as one of the greatest and most relevant progressive rock albums ever. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Stream: Swans- The Seer Slowly but surely, the practically unclassifiable art rock titans Swans have unleashed tracks from their new album The Seer. Last month, they dropped an edited version of “The Apostate,” which appears on The Seer in its complete, 23-minute duration, and last week they released another gargantuan
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Swans’ new record is going to be a doozy. Previously, the band dropped a 10-minute version of the album’s 23-minute track “The Apostate,” and now NPR is streaming another 10-minute epic, with the suitably huge-sounding name “Mother of the World.” The track is essentially a lengthy, churning waltz, with
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Take The Kids Off Broadway (Jagjaguwar) by Foxygen If you’ve been keeping up with my videos, then you know how much I’ve fallen for this new, up-and-coming singer-songwriter duo known as Foxygen. They’ve got a new EP titled Take the Kids Off Broadway coming this July on
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Here is a track from Jagjaguwar’s latest signing, Foxygen. They’re a songwriting duo consisting of Sam France and Jonathan Rado. First track, first listen, it was love. It was love, guys! But I have to admit I’m sure that has a bit to do with how familiar
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Sophist by Birth of Flower Featuring the raucous punk rock energy of the Minutemen, and the eccentric psychosis of Can, here’s one of the newest tracks from Connecticut band Birth of Flower. It comes from the trio’s latest album, Diety.
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the Narrow Musketeer by the narrow musketeer The Narrow Musketeer is a project that’s short on song lengths, but big on personality. It sounds like it was recorded in a bedroom, which is fine, but music of this style does tend to get a bad rap. The humble means
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MP3 A new track from Athens, Georgia band Of Montreal. If y’all watch my reviews, you know how I feel about the band’s trajectory, but this song is an obvious trek backwards into older sounds. Well, sort of. I’d say this album is an attempt to recapture
