The steel pan, like the banjo, the didgeridoo, and the flexatone, is an instrument that will forever be rooted in a certain genre and/or a particular region. The plinky sound of steel pans is to island music what the digital bell synth is to 90s New Age. It is meant to evoke the cool breeze […]
Cameron Barham weighs in on Listener’s newest album, ‘Time is a Machine’. The band is set to headline the Drunken Unicorn in Atlanta on 7/27
Hannah offers a look at Norwegian-artist Jenny Hval’s latest record, ‘Innocence is Kinky’, out now on Rune Grammofon. Catch Jenny on her first US tour this fall.
Holly Etchison calls Ian Morris’ “Parking Lot Manuscripts” a notable stand-out. Check it out.
“So while ‘In the Marrow’ possesses all the right parts to make up a poorly oiled machine, its subtleties and heaviness show themselves in perfect balance.”
“The songs on ‘Pepper’ are not particularly complicated either musically or lyrically, but I feel like it is for the best. In fact, the simplicity adds to the appeal. Who wants to have complicated music as beach music?”
“A sublime mix of past and present, I half expect to see her [JENNY O.] lurking in the back of old Canyon Country Store photographs like some sort of patient, folk-rock vampire.”
Grafton Tanner weighs in on Countless Others’ self-titled release – one of the first from newly formed Boom Done! Records in Atlanta.
Of ‘False Cities’, Sarah Weitman says, “It’s impossible for me to find a song on this album I don’t like, and hard for me to pick one that I like better than any others.”
“Bradley has managed to make two records that have securely tied the knot between generations seemingly too far apart, too different. Young people of the 2000s have fallen in love with music inspired by African American traditions from four or five decades ago.”
The Front Bottoms return with ‘Talon of the Hawk’, their dynamic follow up to their acclaimed 2012 self-titled release! Look for the album everywhere May 21st on Bar/None Records.
“Though the final installment of the Young Man trilogy may be the closing of a chapter for Colin Caulfield and company, the book still has much to be written, as we will most assuredly see the student become the teacher through future works.”
