Perpetual messers-with word cases tUnE yArDs keep their incessant meddling up with this, their second studio album. The powerhouse driving the tUnE yArDs project, Merrill Garbus, has succeeded in giving us an innovative, playful, and staggeringly adept follow-up to the…
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Album: The Feelies – Here Before
Time is an elastic concept for the Feelies. Their latest, Here Before, syncs naturally with their previous recorded work despite being separated by two decades. Songs like ‘Again Today’, ‘ Nobody Knows’, and ‘Should Be Gone’ will make fans feel…
Album: The Wilderness of Manitoba – When You Left The Fire
A strange thing this – an album which is simultaneously enchanting and a little bit dull. You know those records you get completely lost in, then you realise it’s finished and you don’t know where the time went? Well, this…
Album: Three Blind Wolves – The Sound of the Storm
Three Blind Wolves signed to Communion Records after making a serious impression at the label’s Christmas party at the Notting Hill Arts Club in 2010. The Sound of the Storm had previously had an extremely limited release on the band’s…
Album: Explosions In The Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Take Care, Take Care, Take Care is standard Explosions in the Sky fare: thoughtful, aurally and melodically indulgent, it’s an exuberant pleasure. Opening track ‘Last Known Surroundings’, typically loud, sweeps through epic guitar arrangements and definitely signals that the band…
Album: Admiral Fallow – Boots Met My Face
From time to time an album comes along that you know you will fall in love with even before the first song has come to an end – Boots Met My Face, the debut from Glaswegian quintet, Admiral Fallow is,…
Album: Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
Apocalypse is Callahan’s third studio offering since dropping the Smog moniker, and it is in many ways familiar territory: full of lessons learned the hard way, animals and the land, wry self-scathing philosophy, and everywhere the value of endurance. Musically…
Album: Sarabeth Tucek – Get Well Soon
Before we start I should point out that I don’t think of myself as the kind of person who is prone to hyperbole. In fact I’m probably the least likely person in the history of…like…ever to exaggerate. That being said,…
Album: All Eternals Deck – The Mountain Goats
The Mountains Goats are nearly always my favourite band. And John Darnielle is my favourite ever songwriter bar none. He’s an intensely likable, principled, genius of a frontman. Yet the last few albums – though solidly good – haven’t blown…
Album: Dark Dark Dark – Wild Go
There’s more than just a buzz around Dark Dark Dark and their second album, Wild Go. There’s a hive of adoration in some quarters. Why though? That’s not the easiest question to answer. There’s a definite beauty to Wild Go…