There is a common notion that incoming President Joe Biden has a responsibility to “heal America”. “It’s time to put aside the partisanship and the rhetoric designed to demonize one another,” Biden tweeted on 24 November. “We have to come… Read More
60. Thin Lear – Wooden Cave [EggHunt Records] Queens-based singer-songwriter Matt Longo, who records under the moniker Thin Lear, may only be in his mid-30s, but he’s an old soul – musically, at least. His latest album is chock full… Read More
Nils Frahm’s dominant mode is the eyes-closed fantasia: immersive, rapturous, sentimental. That goes for his post-classical solo-piano work, which is indebted to both Keith Jarrett and George Winston, as well as his surging electronic pieces, which translate the grammar of… Read More
25. Frank Jacket – You Say Adios (Mula) Chilean artist Frank Jacket is a living testament to the far-reaching quality of honest-to-goodness classic country movement. Inspired by the honky-tonk of Roger Miller more than anything, Jacket recalls the likes of recent revivalist… Read More
The Parlor, the latest release from New Orleans bluesman, Alabama Slim and arrives 29 January 2021. The project is a joint effort between Cornelius Chapel Records and the Music Maker Relief Foundation. The LP was tracked in 2019 at the… Read More
Even if it seems like the Grinch and Scrooge conspired to ruin the 2020 holidays by spreading the coronavirus months ago, leave it to Heather Maloney to provide the rightful remedy with Christmas Anyway. A global pandemic helped push the… Read More
Thom Yorke, Four Tet and Burial collaborated on a couple tracks back in 2011 and they're back with two new songs. "Her Revolution" and "His Rope" are out as a black label 12" on XL that, according to UK record… Read More
There is a moment in director Bong Joon-ho’s celebrated film Parasite (2019), a pivotal moment in my estimation, that brings to mind verses 5:43-45 from Matthew, a portion of a long sermon delivered by Jesus: “You have heard that it… Read More
As you'd expect from a subgenre with an abbreviation for "traditional" in the name, trad-doom is not an easy genre to break ground in, but Pallbearer have become one of the rare bands to do it. They recall the classics,… Read More
Rina Sawayama once said “gimme just a little bit more, little bit of excess” – and now she’s doing just that. Oh, me, oh, my! Having fully secured all of the love and affection of the Girls, the Gays &… Read More