Steve Mason’s plumbed the range of human emotions in recent years. Once of High Fidelity-featuring, boiler-suited experimentalists The Beta Band, his last album was 2013’s double-length Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time. That was a skulking, snarling, dog of a…
Birthed in Athens, Georgia, in the shadow of alternative heroes Neutral Milk Hotel and alt-country dons the Drive-By Truckers, Mothers was originally conceived as front woman’s Kristine Leschper’s solo project whilst studying printmaking back in 2013. After a bout of…
We’ve seen it before, umpteen times, and with a variety of bands of varying nature and design; 17 years in the music industry is an underestimated period of length, and often times, artists find themselves retreading previous trends and past…
A growing trend in 2016’s musical landscape appears to be female singer-songwriters with all of the potential in the world finally ascending beyond past expectations into a lane that is fully their own. We’ve seen it with Sierra Hull’s Weighted…
In a world of overnight sensations and “overnight sensations,” Uncle Lucius are one of the few bands fronting the modern music scene that seem to have grown into their shoes one local gig at a time. The band have made…
At this point, it may sound like a broken record when all critics are leaning towards the same direction when describing this album’s overall vibe, but referring to the perfectly apt naming of the band Seafret in relation to their…
On his second full-length album under the We/Or/Me moniker, Everything Behind Us is a Dream, Irish/Iranian singer-songwriter Bahhaj Taherzadeh defines simple, emotion-riddled Americanesque folk to a tee. Not unlike his first outing, Ghostwriter EP, or his first LP, The Walking…
“Separation” is a much broader term than most of us would give it credit for. While it would most certainly immediately be taken on as an inference towards a partition of physical or communicative value, the word could also successfully…
Several things are striking about this return from Josephine Foster. There are a mere seven tracks here, including some that revisit and rework material from her back catalogue. It’s not a new idea, but gives the impression that this record…
Laurie Hulme, under his non-de-plume Songs for Walter, has crafted a LP in homage to his late grandfather, the eponymous Walter, 13 songs which verge between the biographical (‘Moon/Two out of Ten’ refers to Walter’s uneasy relationship with the idea…