Five years can be a lifetime. Especially when you front a band like Phosphorescent. Yet for Matt Houck it went by in the blink of an eye. Along the way he got married, moved from New York to Nashville, had…
Album | Phosphorescent – C’est La Vie
Category: Reviews
Album | JP Harris – Sometimes Dogs Bark At Nothing
Joshua Pless Harris seems to be the essence of a Kris Kristofferson song: “walking contradiction, partly truth, partly fiction.” Yet Harris has lived enough in 35 years for three men, leaving home at 14, hopping trains, working as a sheet…
Album | Songs For Walter – An Endless Summer Daze
Songs For Walter was originally the name Laurie Hulme gave to a collection of tracks about his grandfather, songs that garnered a great deal of praise. He also received his share of raves from many of the Radio 6 Music…
Album | Chloe Kimes – Apothecary
When your humble writer first came across Chloe Kimes, it was when she was singing three-parts in one of the first iterations of Awesome Distraction. Fast forward another four or five years from there and the Michigan-slash-Nashville artist has grown…
Album | Patrick Grant – FIELDS AMAZE and other sTRANGE music
As lengthy a title as it may be, Patrick Grant’s FIELDS AMAZE and other sTRANGE music lives up to it in a multifarious blend of ways. First and foremost, the nine tracks of which the album is comprised are, indeed, strange,…
Album | Amy Helm – This Too Shall Light
Sometimes the only way to avoid a struggle is to allow someone else to take the wheel. Amy Helm needed help in order to be set free when it came to recording her latest LP. Producing her first album herself…
Album | The Suborbitals – Hey Oblivion
At the end of everything, there stands oblivion. We come into this life aware that it will one day end—that, like all matter that has come before and after us, we too will one day leave the way we came…
Album | Villagers – The Art of Pretending To Swim
Conor O’Brien seems to be living in two worlds. The first is the folky world of his first release in 2010 Becoming A Jackal, the second a more danceable iteration from this years release, The Art of Pretending To Swim.…
Album | Mirah – Understanding
If someone told you Understanding is the first record by a new artist, discovered by Sub Pop on Youtube just a few months ago, you would probably believe it without so much as a blink. Mirah’s sixth album is imbued…
Single | Scott Chasolen – Limbo
Perhaps best known for his brilliant work behind the keys, Scott Chasolen is letting redolent guitar tones and a hearty voice take the reins on his newest single, ‘Limbo’. Left-of-center triads develop an almost ominous tone straightaway, paving the path…