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I never heard of Cap n Jazz until about a month ago… 90s midwest emo-punk isn t really my wheelhouse, but I got hooked real fast. To me, this shit sounds like 90s skate video music (quick check: one 411 appearance), and passes all my sniff tests: indie-typography cover, angsty standout ( Oh Messy Life…
Trout Mask Replica manages to be both one of the weirdest and most important records ever. Perpetual champion of the underground John Peel said If there has been anything in the history of popular music which could be described as a work of art in a way that people who are involved in other areas of art…
Finally on vinyl for Record Store Day 2018. This highly regarded 2011 LP was recorded on a cheap laptop when Will Toledo (aka Car Seat Headrest) was 19, and it was, as Brian Eno fondly put, the sound of failure : thrilling, extraordinary, and singularly compelling failure. Despite Eno s commentary, the album would be downloaded…
Folk singers, blues singers, and everything in between. They were all wanderers, and I am lucky to be among them. On her stunning tenth full length album, Chan Marshall reflects on the cathartic potential of song and what it means to be an experienced musician. The 11 tracks on Wanderer feature a remarkably stark and straightforward backing, allowing the indie chanteuse…
Reward is the latest from Cate Le Bon, a Welsh musician and producer with an understated take on left-field pop music. She received her first accolades as a supporting act for Super Furry Animals in 2007. Her folky and whimsical debut Me Oh My released in 2009, followed by the measured prog-pop of CYRK in…
180g sea blue coloured vinyl pressing features three extra tracks the first issue of Whirlpool: The Original Recordings from Chapterhouse. This release consists of the original Whirlpool (1991) recordings from VHF Studios Rugby, Sawmills Cornwall, Stoneroom Studios London and Refuge in Reading. Featuring three extra tracks, including the never before released Thrasher and longer alternate…
“This is Charles Bukowski. Well, let me sit here and drink some beer.” So begins the writer novelist poet’s 1972 reading. There is plenty of beer drinking, belching, explicit language, and poetry on the record, with Bukowski, who’s believed to have inspired Hank Moody’s alcoholic, womanizing character in the TV series Californication, bluntly sharing his…
Charli XCX dropped two mixtapes in 2017, Number 1 Angel and Pop 2, and the two projects are now on a cassette tape. The London, England artist lists the Spice Girls, Kate Bush, Quentin Tarantino, Lil Wayne, and Twin Peaks as influences, and her attitude-filled take on pop is on full display here. Check out…
Third full-length from Seattle s Chastity Belt, the band that consists of Julia Shapiro, Lydia Lund, Annie Truscott, and Gretchen Grimm. The indie rock quartet met at Whitmant College in Walla Walla, Washington, and I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone is the follow-up to 2015 s Time to Go Home. Much of CB…
“Sleep and dream issues have followed me my whole life,” admits Chelsea Wolfe, and Abyss, the 2015 effort from the LA-based singer songwriter, challenges such complications head on. Dark and hazy but bizarrely soothing moments are contrasted by intense and upsetting junctures, and the album, which she describes as “an inverted thunderstorm, the dark backward,…
double vinyl pressing with etched D Side Chicha Libre plays a mixture of latin rhythms, surf music and psychedelic pop inspired by Peruvian music from Lima and the Amazon. The Brooklyn-based band mixes up covers of forgotten Chicha classics with French-tinged originals, re-interpretation of 70’s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by…
First and only studio album from New York City s Choking Victim. No Gods No Managers was originally recorded in 1998 and features an infectious blend of ska and hardcore. The band s tongue in cheek lyrics and dark humor would go on to influence many nascent bands in the punk scene. A definite must…
What s in a name? Everything! Greg Gonzalez s Brooklyn outfit, Cigarettes After Sex, which includes members Phillip Tubbs, Randy Miller, and Jacob Tomsky, releases a self-titled debut album, and the vibe the 10-tracker curates is exactly what the title suggests. Ambient pop, shoegaze, and slowcore influences combine w Gonzalez s androgynous vocals, and the immersive,…
What s in a name? Everything! Greg Gonzalez s Brooklyn outfit, Cigarettes After Sex, which includes members Phillip Tubbs, Randy Miller, and Jacob Tomsky, releases a self-titled debut album, and the vibe the 10-tracker curates is exactly what the title suggests. Ambient pop, shoegaze, and slowcore influences combine w Gonzalez s androgynous vocals, and the immersive,…
Greg Gonzalez & gang recently dropped their self-titled debut full-length, Cigarettes After Sex, and it s a gorgeous body of work that explores the most delicate and melancholic arcs of ambient pop. Almost 5 years before the 10-tracker, however, CAS released I.. It is this 4-track EP that would define the group s refined, understated…
The soundtrack to Cameron Crowe s Singles was packed with a who s who of the Seattle grunge movement. With songs from Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Mudhoney the OST helped implant grunge into the American musical lexicon. It was so popular it ended up going double platinum! However, there was one notable omission from the…
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