On its sophomore albums, Massachusetts’ Passion Pit brings its joyful, upbeat sound to new heights of happiness. WATCH THE REVIEW
John Cale drops a new track from this forthcoming album on Double Six, Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood. I’m really liking the vintage rock ‘n’ roll feel on this thing. Really dramatic vocal delivery, and it’s just pure gold when the beat and bass make that initial hit
Simon Joyner, one of the darker singer-songwriters to come out of the 90s, has a new album on the way this August titled Ghosts. “Vertigo” is the first track to drop from it, and it’s quite good. Simon is really pushing the instrumentation on this one–especially with the
To be completely honest, when it comes to the work of singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, I can’t help but feel like I’ve grown out of his work a little bit. I used to be pretty passionate about his overly emotional songwriting years ago, but it’s not something I’
EGYPTR by Egyptr How I found out about Egyptr was my good buddy Zach from We Listen For You Tweeted me a minute ago telling me this album was “pure Fantano,” or something like that. I dunno about that. Maybe this is, like, in the 70-80 percentile. I’m just
BALCONY by Balcony Check out this self-titled album from Montreal’s Balcony. It’s some wonderfully strange and creative acoustic music. While vocals and guitar take the lead, strange grooves, sequenced beats, and weird background vocals makes these tracks much more than your average “confessional” songwriter strumming away into oblivion.
On Silencing Machine, Nachtmystium’s experiments with the sounds of black metal are subtle, but very effective. It’s mostly the band’s great songwriting that carries this record. WATCH THE REVIEW
Deerhoof drops a track from its forthcoming album on Polyvinyl records. The LP’s title: Breakup Song. And this track is kinda wowing me. It’s not my favorite Deerhoof track, but the band has really taken a different direction here. With some horns, piano, and a Latin rhythm section,
Watch this interesting, nicely shot 4-part video series looking into the making of the new Nachtmystium album, Silencing Machine. It’s pretty awesome seeing the writing dynamic of the band on this new record–especially with the addition of longtime producer Sanford Parker as a contributing member of the group.
Mount Eerie’s last album, Clear Moon, definitely took drone and repetition to the forefront for the longtime musical project of singer-songwriter Phil Elverum. Phil is now gearing up to release his second album of 2012, Ocean Roar, and “Pale Lights” is the first song to drop from it. The
