By Matthew Lawhead Young & Unafraid, the 2016 release from The Moth & the Flame, is one of my all time favorite albums. It has an incredibly lush sound, powerful vocals, and impressive songwriting....
By Dylan Falk Three years ago, I saw Deerhunter for the first time. They were introduced by a long instrumental without any sign of their front man, Bradford Cox, anywhere on stage. Suddenly, there...
By Matthew Lawhead In a year where five of my favorite artists are scheduled to release music in late January and February, it would have to take a very special album to distract me...
By Spencer Smith Experimental jazz-electronica queen Julia Holter’s new release is a double LP inspired by a short story on being trapped in the titular aviary, surrounded by cacophonous birds (an experience not unlike...
By Alex Cohen Music is one of the most effective and organic means of processing grief. In August of 2016, the music world mourned as Architects guitarist and songwriter Tom Searle succumbed to cancer....
By Matthew Lawhead The Brooklyn industrial-tinged rock band The Black Black has existed with various lineups since 2012, but they have a tightness you would expect from a group that had maintained a consistent...
Reviewed by Meghan Zonno Cleveland, Ohio has been, for a few years now, one of my favorite places to go for smaller concerts. Almost every time I attend a show there, I hear a...
By Dylan Falk I didn’t listen to Julien Baker this summer. A simple phrase, yet to me a powerful one. For me, the end of the spring was marred by an ending of a...
By Stevie Priller Anyone who knows me, knows I’m a sucker for music from New Jersey. Alexander Paul’s newest EP, “Soulmates… Unfortunately For You,” is no exception. Having been written, recorded, mixed, and mastered...
By John Wright It’s always nice when trends come back around on the endlessly spinning wheel of fortune that is our culture. In any case, it now seems to be the turn of a...
1. Sudan Archives Athena (Stones Throw)
2. Vagabon Vagabon (Nonesuch)
3. Floating Points Crush (Ninja Tune)
4. Teebs Anicca (Brainfeeder)
5. New Pornographers In the Morse Code Of Brake Lights (Concord)
6. Hovvdy Heavy Lifter (Double Double Whammy)
7. Fea No Novelties (Blackheart)
8. Black Marble Bigger Than Life (Sacred Bones)
9. Diiv Deceiver (Captured Tracks)
10. Yeule Serotonin II (Bayonet)
