On March 20, April Harper Gray, better known as underscores, released her third studio album, U, with Mom and Pop Music. While her last project, Wallsocket, was a genre-bending concept album exploring the fictional town of Wallsocket, Indiana, and what it means to grow into womanhood, U is a digitalized simplification of Gray’s trademark take… Continue reading U album review: underscores ventures into the mainstream
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b7lanket & Luko M Keep It Short & Sweet With Home team
Bedroom indie producers b7lanket and Luko M have joined up for Home team, an EP-sized mixtape self-released on April 6 and available on SoundCloud and Nina Protocol. Their first collaboration is steeped in childhood nostalgia, creating a miniature world that revolves around sports practice and a carefree curiosity for the world around you. This is… Continue reading b7lanket & Luko M Keep It Short & Sweet With Home team
Indie-Pop Meets Psychedelia — The Crux by Djo
Did you know Steve Harrington records music? Wait, sorry, not Steve, the guy who plays Steve. While known to most as the actor for jerk-turned-heartthrob Steve Harrington on the Netflix series “Stranger Things,” Joe Keery is known to those in the music scene as the cleverly-monikered Djo — pronounced “Joe.” Get it? Keery has been quietly… Continue reading Indie-Pop Meets Psychedelia — The Crux by Djo
Swaddling Silk and Gossamer Rain — Album/EP Review
The release of the March 2024 EP, Swaddling Silk and Gosammer Rain, marks part three of Dalia’s Mixtape, conductor Dalia Stasevska and the BBC symphony orchestra’s ten track journey toward reimagining the future of classical music. As easy as it has been in recent years to lose hope in the relevance of classical composers —… Continue reading Swaddling Silk and Gossamer Rain — Album/EP Review
Fronzoli and Its Psychedelic Supremacy
It’s not difficult to be immediately fascinated by the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets. The chaos of their name alone is provocative, but their sixth album, Fronzoli (2023), takes their intrigue to a whole other level. I’ve been an adoring fan since I first started listening around 2020 and an obsessed freak ever since I saw… Continue reading Fronzoli and Its Psychedelic Supremacy
Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department: Bitter, But Good
Two hours after Taylor Swift released her eleventh album The Tortured Poets Department, she surprise-released a bonus disc, subtitled The Anthology, doubling its length to over two hours. Few of those extra tracks earn their place on the full record, and their inclusion makes the double album a more arduous listen than it needs to… Continue reading Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department: Bitter, But Good
The Star-Crossed Love Story of Adrianne Lenker’s ‘Bright Future’
Big Thief lead vocalist Adrianne Lenker’s latest record tells a doomed love story that will shatter your heart and haphazardly (but lovingly) paste it back together again and again.
‘Prelude to Ecstasy’ Is An Impassioned, If Disorganized, Debut From The Last Dinner Party
The first album from the London quintet is impassioned, creative, and promising, though its messier moments prevent it from living up to the hype.
Sleater-Kinney’s ‘Little Rope’: A Lackluster Return
In their eleventh album and fourth album since the departure of longtime drummer Janet Weiss, Sleater-Kinney pulls themselves from the depths of grief with the help of a little rope.
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