folk
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My Morning Jacket’s latest album was a two-part surprise for me. First, I was happy to hear how alive and ambitious the first half of this album was. Not only are the hooks and instrumentation strong, but the band seems equally comfortable saying something beautiful or funny with their
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Timber Timbre drops a video for Creep On Creepin’ On‘s “Black Water,” which just might be one of the creepiest albums of 2011. The video as directed by “Exploding Motor Car,” and I thought everything in this video was an awesome, underwater sea urchin until I realized they’re
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Singer-songwriter Basia Bulat premieres a new song, “It Can’t Be You,” through a new video on yourstru.ly. Basia’s latest album dropped last year. Here’s a review of it.
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On Helplessness Blues, Fleet Foxes improve just about everything that they were doing on their last album. Keep in mind the key word here is “improve,” not change. Yes, the band is still walking down the same path they were on their previous LP, but they’re much further down
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MP3 Unfortunately, albums from the garage rock outfit Thee Oh Sees have always been hit or miss for me. But when they hit, they really hit. The first track to drop from their forthcoming LP on In the Red is incredibly fun. If we all knew the words, it would
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MP3 A 7-minute introduction to the forthcoming My Morning Jacket LP, Circuital. The introduction is a little slow, but when the instrumentation jumps in after 1/3 of the track, it’s pretty heavenly. I can smell the pollen and feel the sun on my face with this one. Circuital
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Spirit Spine is the home-recorded journey through the outsider sounds of psychedelia, kraut rock, ambient music, minimalism, and dream pop. The sounds on “Ocean of Sand” sort of remind me of Parts & Labor’s previous album Receivers, but this project’s influences run much deeper than that–just look
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Six Organs of Admittance, a.k.a. guitarist and songwriter Ben Chasny, exists at a unique stylistic crossroads where acoustic folk and indie psych merge. After 2009’s sonically dense Luminous Night, Chasny has come back to a very comfortable, albeit creative place. Asleep On The Floodplain, his latest LP
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Last year, the comments sections of my videos were lightly peppered with suggestions of the latest Seabear album, We Built a Fire. Sorry dudes and dudettes. I guess I was busy or something. Just didn’t like it as much as I thought I would. Well, the band’s frontman,
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On “Kingdom Come” comes off like a redneck, backwater version of Fleet Foxes, but don’t count out this project out yet. Eventually, the dam breaks and an ocean of layered acoustic instrumentation hits the mix. There’s a nice sliced and looped crescendo in the track at 2:50
