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Suki Waterhouse – I Can’t Let Go (2022)
In between her acting roles in movies such as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), the miniseries The White Princess (2017), and A Rainy Day in New York (2019), London native Suki Waterhouse pursued...
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Weird Nightmare – Weird Nightmare (2022)
Heavy distortion, blaring noisiness, fierce intensity — these are all words that one might use to describe a weird nightmare. They’re certainly ones that make up Alex Edkins’s new musical moniker and...
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TV Priest – My Other People (2022)
Without a brutal evaluation of their own becoming, TV Priest might have never made their second album. Heralded as the next big thing in post-punk, they were established as a bolshy, sharp-witted...
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Σtella – Up and Away (2022)
Following the release of her international debut, the self-produced, synth pop-oriented The Break, in 2020, Σtella — Athens, Greece-based visual artist and musician Stella Chronopoulou — signed with...
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Naima Bock – Giant Palm (2022)
Bock’s melodies and lyrics are frequently engaging, though what stand out are her entrancing vocal deliveries. The result is a project as instrumentally oriented as it is song-focused, each track...
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Elevator Through – Vague Premonition (Expanded) (2022)
…now fully remastered features the original soundtrack to 1998’s “The Such”, plus 8 more songs from the band’s 1998 home sessions. From the ashes of Elevator to Hell and Eric’s Trip, Elevator brings...
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Kiwi Jr. – Chopper (2022)
Before Chopper came along and complicated things, it was safe to call Kiwi Jr.’s sound emblematic of an in-with-the-old approach to unpretentious guitar music. A central force in the jangle pop...
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Bret McKenzie – Songs Without Jokes (2022)
Bret McKenzie release Songs Without Jokes, his full-length, solo debut, worldwide through Sub Pop. The album, which features lead single “A Little Tune,” and additional highlights “Dave’s Place,” “If...
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Built to Spill – When the Wind Forgets Your Name (2022)
There has been a recent trend of young rock bands looking to 90’s acts for inspiration and it is great to see one of the originators still in stellar form. On the loping drum and bass-driven...
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Frankie Cosmos – Inner World Peace (2022)
Frankie Cosmos‘s fifth studio album, Inner World Peace, progresses like setting up a fireplace in an antiquated mansion, starting as if by candlelight, delicately reflecting, before a comforting warmth...
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Weyes Blood – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (2022)
Hair flowing, heart glowing, wrapped in an old white wedding dress once worn as a Halloween costume, Natalie Mering seems to be hitting the religious imagery hard on her latest album’s artwork. It...
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Hot Hot Heat – Make Up The Breakdown [Deluxe Edition] (2022)
Hot Hot Heat’s Make Up The Breakdown: Deluxe Edition is the newly remastered and expanded version of the group’s breakthrough full-length. Make Up The Breakdown was produced by Jack Endino (Nirvana,...
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King Tuff – Smalltown Stardust (2023)
Many artists inhabiting the world of their chosen genre will often fall into two camps: those for whom their output is a constant work in progress, refining details and staying pretty strictly within...
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Quasi – Breaking the Balls of History (2023)
Janet Weiss — undisputed legend of the Pacific Northwest music scene, having notably played in the supergroup Wild Flag and on a couple of Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks albums (including 2008’s seminal...
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Bria – Cuntry Covers vol. 2 EP (2023)
Over the past few decades, covers records have tended towards filler; stop-gap releases that let artists signal their street cred while keeping the content mill churning. Throughout pop music’s history...
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DEBBY FRIDAY – GOOD LUCK (2023)
Debby Friday‘s first two EPs were fierce, commanding bursts of energy that amalgamated synth punk, electro, noise, and industrial hip-hop. The Nigeria-born, Canada-based artist has since collaborated...
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Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (2023)
Mudhoney will never entirely escape its grunge past, nor should it. The band did much to define that early 1990s amalgam of punk irreverence and lo-fi fuzz metal roar. However, for the last couple of...
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Shannon Lay – Covers Vol. 1 (2023)
Shannon Lay has never been coy about sharing her love for those that influenced her. Lay’s last album, Geist, included a playful cover of Syd Barrett’s “Late Night” and on August, Lay included a song,...
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Lael Neale – Star Eaters Delight (2023)
Singer/songwriter Lael Neale‘s 2021 album Acquainted with Night departed from the somewhat forgettable studio sound of her earlier work in favor of home recording, imperfect performances, and spare...
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Beach House – Become EP (2023)
Beach House’s very first non-album single, released in the wake of Devotion in 2008, with the “Apple Orchard” demo on the flip, was a scruffy early take on “Used to Be,” a song that eventually...
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