Category: Album
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Nokto 2 by Jordi Forniés, A Record That Could Easily Become a Cult Classic
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I’ve been following Jordi Forniés for quite a while now, and when I heard about…
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Blockhouse Valley – ‘It’s Alright’ When the World Falls Apart and Music Saves
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Blockhouse Valley from Michigan rolled out eight tracks called “It’s Alright,“ and it’s the kind…
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Gavriel Micah’s Between the Letters EP Delivers a Breathtaking Fusion of Trumpet, Jazz, and Jewish Diaspora Roots
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Between the Letters — that’s the name of the short yet very dense EP by…
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Heartbreak in Five Acts: Tristan Turdean Turns Grief Into Conceptual Rock EP With Visuals
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Tristan Turdean just cooked up this conceptual short film-slash-rock EP hybrid called 5 SONGS TO…
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‘Pastorale’ by East of West: How a Forgotten Piano Became the Starting Point for One of the Year’s Best Instrumental Albums
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There’s a story here, and it doesn’t begin in a studio, or on a stage,…
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How Ryy0 Turned Two Years of His Life Into the Honest Indie Album ‘H0M3’
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When it comes to debut albums, I always feel the temptation to describe them with…
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Even If You Think You’re Ready for Etudes Study Group, You’re Not — Welcome to Their Mind-Bending World of Sonic Rituals
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Etudes Study Group is one of those acts that challenge the very idea of categorization—experimental…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Chan The Human Shifts Gears Across Genres On Second LP ‘He Became Everything’
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There’s a moment around track four on He Became Everything where I stopped trying to…
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Been Looping Past Lives by Eli Lev and Forgetting Half My To-Do List — Worth It!
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It always starts quietly. With a breath. With a hush. With someone humming alone in…
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Gabi Goldman Makes a Breakout Statement with ‘For Myself’ — A Five-Track Portrait of Intimacy, Heartache, and Undeniable Pop Craft
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When it comes to pop music—and let’s be real, when does it ever not come…
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With ‘Land After Rain, Pt. 2’, Sunbeam42 Pushes Ambient Toward the Elemental
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Ambient music—ah, ambient music. If you’ve been following my reviews for any amount of time,…
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Ginger Winn Trades Resolution for Reverberation on the Beautifully Withheld ‘Freeze Frame’
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When I first heard that Ginger Winn was dropping a new record called Freeze Frame,…
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London’s Winterblind Hit Their Peak on the Relentless and Uncompromising ‘EGO’
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When you name your album EGO, you leave subtlety behind. The listener dropped straight into…
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Brian Michael Henry’s ‘Jokes for Angels’ Is a Chainsaw-Dragging, Broadway-Baritone, Anti-Confessional Masterpiece and I’m Still Processing It
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Let’s talk about what happens when you take self-awareness, literary precision, and just the right…
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What Happens When a Veteran Musician Stops Chasing Hits and Just Plays? You Get Johnny Batchelor’s Surprisingly Personal ‘Ain’t Nobody’
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Johnny Batchelor. Yes, that Johnny Batchelor—the man who once fronted the Dropbears, one of those…
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Aidan Leclaire Band Unleash Raw Energy and Big Ideas on New Album ‘Hail to the Dogs’
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The Aidan Leclaire Band is back, and their latest offering, “Hail to the Dogs,” dropped…
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Simon Talbot’s New Album Follows HALO’s Glow Down a More Obscure, Beautiful Path
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Simon Talbot has never looked like an artist interested in entertaining. Even in HALO, where…
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Ever Had a Memory You’re Not Sure Was Real? That’s the Vibe of Jaden Sade’s ‘The Forgotten Chapters’
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You ever sit in a room you used to love, but the furniture’s been moved…
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Deep, Stylish, Alive: Why ‘Turning Magic On Its Heels’ by Graham And The Band Upstair Is Already Earning Praise from Everyone Who’s Heard It
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Graham And The Band Upstair. First of all — immaculate band name. Sounds like the…
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The Art of Erosion: Matt Berninger’s Return on Get Sunk Is a Masterclass in Atmospheric Storytelling
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Matt Berninger returns with his sophomore album, Get Sunk, stepping confidently outside the shadows of…
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dwn bad Drops the Polished Act and Lets the Guitars Bleed on ‘Good Luck Have Fun’
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Here comes dwn bad with a new EP titled Good Luck Have Fun, and before…
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Trip-Hop Isn’t Dead. It Just Moved to France —Casino Square’s ‘Temple Of The Mind’ Is a Masterclass in Range
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When I hit play on Temple Of The Mind, I wasn’t sure if I was…
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Jordan Phoenix Breaks Himself Open on ‘A New Liberation & The Star Child From America’ — A Beautiful Reckoning with the Ruins of the American Dream
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I knew Jordan Phoenix had a new album coming, and before it even dropped —…
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Zach Tabori Goes Nuclear on ‘Attack of The Clout Chasers’ — A Chaotic, Satirical, Genre-Melting Acid Trip with Teeth
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If Frank Zappa dropped acid in a TikTok algorithm and woke up in a cyberpunk…
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She Came From Space… And Told Her Story — I Am Boleyn’s ‘Voyager’ Sticks The Landing
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London’s synth-pop enchantress I Am Boleyn has dropped ‘Voyager’ — and it hits like stepping…
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Recorded in a Dorm, But Sounds Like an Indie Classic — The Beautiful Brilliance of Snowden River’s ‘Sea Glass’
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‘Sea Glass’ — quite an intriguing and poetic name, isn’t it? The first image that…
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The New Album By Noah Gazmen Is A Sequential Chronicle Of Experience, Divided Into Ten Episodes
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The first thing that hits your ears — this album has bones. It does not…
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She Played for Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, Now She Plays for Herself — Eliza Marshall’s ‘New Birth’ Is a Statement of Independence
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Listening to Eliza Marshall’s debut EP New Birth, I catch myself thinking how rarely we…
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From Chile With Noise — Helladdict Reignite the Spirit of Protest Metal With Three Relentless Tracks
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Helladdict have released a self-titled EP, and let’s be real from the start: these guys…
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Hannah Wood Turns Personal Crisis Into A Pop Album With The Precision Of A Documentarian — My Candid Review Of The Debut Album
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I do not know all the details of what happened to Hannah in 2020. But…
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Cyanide Sisters Made an Album That Dismantles Structure, Mood, and Expectation in One Go
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Christian Baringe and Daniel Jansson are two musicians from Stockholm who, by all appearances, have…
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Simon Talbot Asked About Favorite Colors. What He Did With the Answers Is Kinda Beautiful
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Simon Talbot has long been a kind of strange musical reference point for me. But…
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Before Release Day Hits! Mama Said’s ‘Change In the Weather’ Already Sounds Like a Debut That Lands Right On Target
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I think many people know that feeling during an evening walk under a cloudy sky,…
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Leila Addams’ New EP ‘Bones’ Proves She’s Either a Musical Genius or a Gothic Sorceress (Possibly Both)
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What I’ve always liked about Leila Addams‘ music is her stubborn reluctance to follow a…
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Shannon Smith’s Debut Album ‘Out Of The Shadows’ Is Vinyl-and-CD-Only and I’m Here for It
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Shannon Smith’s ‘Out Of The Shadows‘ arrives like a handwritten letter in a world of…
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Jon-Olov Woxlin’s ‘Ur egen fatabur’ Returns Music to Its Roots with Solo Violin
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Jon-Olov Woxlin. A man who once decided he wanted to make music in the spirit…
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Brian Halloran Builds a Room With No Exit and Calls It Disquiet: Reviewing a Decade of Quiet Collapse
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Today we’re taking aim at Disquiet — an album Brian Halloran spent a full ten…
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‘Peaks Island and Other Places’ By Little Champion Is What Happens When You Remember a Dream Too Vividly
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You know that moment when you’re walking alone, earbuds in, on a street that’s technically…
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Sista Soul Finds Her Groove and Grows It Into a Whole World on the Intimate, Polished, and Unapologetically Lush ‘Soul Reflections’
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There was always music in Jeanette “Sista Soul” Cooper’s childhood. The house was filled with…
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A Little Country, a Little Art Rock, a Lot of Heart: The Ram Sticks the Landing on New Album ‘I Am Nowhere, I Am Everywhere’
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When I played ‘I Am Nowhere, I Am Everywhere’, a strange feeling caught up with…
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Marlene Oak Comes Through the Storm With ‘Big Time,’ an EP That Refuses to Flinch From the Truth
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You know, music has an unusual talent. It’s not often you come across an artist…
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Stephanie Bettman’s ‘Out Of The Darkness’ Sounds Like a Folk Album, a Funk Album, a Latin Album, and a Pop Album All Having a Group Hug
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I love exclusive listening sessions. It’s pure bliss. I love that feeling: sitting there, knowing…
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The Unplanned Release: How Subscotia’s ‘Sentinel’ Became an Album of Radical Vulnerability
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When an album like Sentinel by Subscotia lands in your lap, you don’t immediately know…
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Quiet, Patient, and Painfully Human — a Look at Nick Bellerose’s Long-Awaited First Album ‘The Only Way Is Through’
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Twenty-five years is a long time. You can switch careers a few times, go through…
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Alt-Rock? Synthwave? Ambient Grunge Monkcore? Dan Smyth’s New Album Says Yes
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The new album ‘What It Is and What It’s Not’ by Dan Smyth is a…
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Marcus Orelias Went from “Actor, Writer, Designer” to Making One of the Best R&B Albums of the Year
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Marcus Orelias is an artist who somehow manages to blend sophisticated soul, tender R&B, bursts…
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Can Confirm: Erica Rose Is About To Drop An EP That Demands Attention — Got The Exclusive and I’m Still Not Over It
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Erica Rose is about to release her debut EP ‘Cry Baby’. And trust me, it’s…
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Maria Lane Drops a Director’s Cut of Her Own — ‘Black and Blue Deluxe: Deeper Shades’ Is Huge, Honest, and Almost Overwhelming in the Best Way
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When we talk about the new deluxe edition Black and Blue Deluxe: Deeper Shades by…
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Darren Pickering’s THREE Sends Modern Jazz Into a Cinematic, Synth-Driven Orbit — Yes, This Is an Exclusive Review of the New Album
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Alright, folks, gather ‘round because I’ve got the lowdown on a release that’s so exclusive…
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Baleine’s II Is What Happens When You Give Musicians Too Much Freedom and They Actually Use It Well
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It’s honestly strange that there still isn’t a dedicated subgenre for albums like this. You…
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Didn’t Expect To Get Emotionally Steamrolled By A Folk-Country Record, But Even The Dying by Matthew Moore Got Me Good
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There are albums that, you know, don’t really need explaining — and yet you sit…
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Survival Is a Debut That Favors Depth Over Flash — If Rich, Heartfelt Folk Is Your Thing, Harry Cleverdon’s Worth Your Time!
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Do you enjoy listening to the sound of a guitar slowly drifting into your thoughts,…
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When The Structure Collapses and The Beast Breaks Loose! Marcus: the Apex Predator!’s New EP Tears Up The Script From The Very First Seconds
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Detroit has never cared for polish or polite bows. What matters here is drive, volume,…
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Five Albums in Five Years, and Somehow ‘V’ Still Finds New Ground to Break — Green’s Genre-Jumping Obsession Hits a Wild New Peak
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The latest album from Michael Joseph Green — V — marks his fifth release in…
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It’s Been 15 Years and I Still Can’t Talk About Goodness Gracious Without Getting Emotional – The Heligoats Built a Whole World Out of Paper Boats and Guitar Strings
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Back in 2010, Chris Otepka played with such sincere force that Goodness Gracious instantly stuck…
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Minimalism, Vulnerability, and a Voice That Seems To Rise Out Of The Air Itself — Channeled by Pontea Is a Rare Kind Of Listening Experience
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“Channeled” by Pontea is six tracks that flow in soft waves, succeeding one another like…
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Campfires, Trailers, and Gentle Revelations — Majelen’s Stuck With You Is a Road Album Without the Usual Tropes
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I’d been waiting a long time for Majelen’s new album to drop, and now that…
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What Happens When a Cyberpunk Rabbit Teaches The Algorithm To Dream? T3d Bunny’s Bach 2 Human Might Be It
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Let’s be honest — we screwed it all up. Algorithms have long been deciding what…
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Can We Talk About How Nomé Naku Made One Of The Most Emotionally Detailed Electronic Albums I’ve Heard In a Long Time?
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When you first encounter Nomé Naku, what immediately stands out is the unusual blend of…
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MaVe’s ‘Ecstatic / Perplexed’: Everything You Need to Know About the New Album
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MaVe’s second studio album, Ecstatic / Perplexed, pushes you forward on waves you can’t quite…
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Tweed & Hyenas: The Intricate, Ethereal, and Flowing World of Their New Album Saltations
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Tweed & Hyenas, a London quartet from the southeast of the city, have created something…
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ZZ Ward Breaks Free From Label Constraints and Unleashes a Powerhouse Of Soulful Independence With ‘Liberation’!
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When ZZ Ward dropped Liberation—her first album after saying “goodbye” to labels and their endless…
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Record an Album, Throw an Exhibition, Host a Wild Party, or Rehearse — Welcome to Gonzo’s
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St. Mark’s Place greets you with the loud rustle of footsteps, the scent of cheap…
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What Happens When a Storyteller with a Lifetime of Musical Experience Steps Into the Unknown? The Catacombs is Mark Ciani’s Answer, and It’s as Mesmerizing as It is Unpredictable
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Mark Ciani is a man who, over 25 years, has played keyboards in punk-ska bands…
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Drifting Intervals – De Moi’s New Album Flowing Between Comfort and Eternity
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Ambient music has changed beyond recognition over the past half-century. Once, it was a music…
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Is Buh-Bye a Farewell, a Welcome, or Just Zach Savage Letting Us Eavesdrop on His Brain? Either Way, It’s Pretty Damn Good
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While the March wind outside chases away the last scraps of winter, Zach Savage, this…
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What Does LETTERS Hide? A First Look at Simon Talbot’s New Album Before Its Official Release
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Can LETTERS be considered one of Simon Talbot’s most life-affirming albums? The question is almost…
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Grunge, Trap, R&B, and Pure Chaos: Love Ghost’s Memento Mori Is a Soundclash You Won’t Forget
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Memento Mori by Love Ghost. When this album dropped on February 28, no one expected…
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Revitalizing Chicago Blues: How Terry Blade Unearthed Hidden Archive Recordings and Reshaped a Genre’s Legacy
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Blues is an oral history, a living archive, a tradition passed down from generation to…
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I Didn’t Expect To Find a Record That Blends Calm And Momentum So Well, But UMFYR’s Surroundings Became My Go-To For Quiet, Focused Moments
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I don’t remember how I came across this album. Most likely, I was once again…
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Industrial Gloom, Shimmering Ghosts, and Heavy Melancholy—Scottish Islands’ You, Me, and The Void Is as Crushing as It Is Beautiful
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Grief is like an apocalypse. The world collapses, but only yours. People around you go…
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Can Jazz Still Surprise You? If You’re Not Sure, Alex Hand’s Handsome Answer Might Be Exactly What You Need to Hear
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Jazz can be an incredibly fascinating conversationalist, but there’s no guarantee you’ll have the patience…
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Emma Nilsdotter Returns After 20 Years with a Guitar-Driven Album That Balances Old Wounds, New Triumphs, and Just the Right Amount of Country Swagger
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When an artist releases an album two decades after their debut, it’s an event in…
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Jazz? Hip-hop? Folk? Ambient? Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra Said Yes To Everything—20+ Musicians, Two Albums, Zero Rules
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Some projects defy easy categorization, and Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra is one of them. If…
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California Was Her Past, Ohio Became Her Future—How Andrea Nicole King’s Harvest Love Grew from Heartbreak and Healing
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Five years of silence, three days of writing—numbers that seem disproportionate. As if the universe…
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Missed the Show? Settle Down! Brings Mike Stocksdale’s Electric Hotel Café Set Straight to Your Speakers
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You know that feeling. When a cozy café hums with life but doesn’t overwhelm, when…
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Forget Reality—Once Upon a Cloudtop Meadow by Inal Bilsel is Your Ticket to Another Dimension
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Imagine a meadow snugly perched at the very crest of an airy cloud, where transparent…
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Hazy, Youthful, and Unapologetically Authentic: Explore Rainbow City Park’s Debut EP
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A debut EP is a serious matter. It’s more than just a collection of songs—it’s…
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Hidden References, Woven Confessions, and the Rush of Shifting Emotions: How PHI-108’s Solve For Why Nurtures a Dialogue Across Generations
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When I first played Solve For Why by PHI-108, I imagined turning off a busy…
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Twenty Years, Thousands of Miles, and a New Album: Steve Moss Returns With Another Go To Remind The World What Real Rock Sounds Like
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Twenty years is a whole era. In that time, a person can completely rebuild themselves,…
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Sylva Faye’s New Album Sunday Forever Is Cozy, Intimate, and Just a Little Bit Haunting
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Sometimes, when listening to a musician’s new work, you just want to forget all things…
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Eliza Harrison Smith’s The Way I’m Wired Is a Polished Indie Pop Record That Knows Exactly What It’s Doing
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There’s something refreshing about music that doesn’t pretend. The Way I’m Wired by Eliza Harrison…
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Jude Grant’s New Album: One Minute You’re Vibing, Next Minute You’re in a Western – A Chaotic, Cinematic, Multi-Genre Masterpiece
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Well, when reviewing albums like JUDE GRANT WOULD BE ANYTHING FOR LOVE, I always feel…
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Lounna Made an Album Called Garden For Winter, But Instead of Frost and Snow, It Turned Out to Be the Warmest Thing I’ve Heard in a Long Time
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The magic of Lounna—where does it come from? I have to admit, when I first…
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Sleepless Nights and Hungover Dawns: Honeysucker Nails the Urban Fever in Headed for a Dive
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They say still waters run deep, and Headed for a Dive exists somewhere on the…
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I Let Brooke’s Slinky Dark Pop Melodies Take Over My Senses and I’m Loving Every Moment
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The EP AWAY TODAY by brooke is a soft yet daring creation, infused with the…
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The Kartetch’s New EP The Fallacy: Monochrome Frenzy and the Secrets of Resonating Low Strings
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Have you ever tried tuning a guitar so low that the walls start to shake?…
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Simon Talbot Returns with ‘FREE’ — The Album That Asks: What If Everything You Call Freedom Is a Lie?
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Freedom. Funny word, isn’t it? It sounds so light, like a breeze brushing against your…
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In Night’s Cross, Rosetta West Smiles at Mortality While Crafting a Genre-Blending Record of Blues and Rock, Best Enjoyed After Midnight
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Have you ever thought about death? Of course, you have. Everyone has at some point.…
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Revived Emotions by Aakash Sridhar — A Casual Stroll Through Jazz-Inspired Daily Moments
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Aakash Sridhar has a knack for finding magic in the ordinary. For him, every day…
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An Hour With Another Day Feels Like a Respite From Modern Life—Medd & Shaw Have Created a True Haven
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There’s something magical about music—something that allows us to momentarily forget all our worries and…
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BETTER NEVER THAN LATE: PUNKTUALS Ignite Seattle’s Skies with a Blistering, No-Holds-Barred Rock Manifesto
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If it were legally possible to keep volcanoes as pets in Seattle, I’d swear that…
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Six Tracks from Howard Gripp’s New EP Chronicle a Powerful Journey from Pain to Faith and Inner Light
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You know, there’s something mesmerizing about the story of someone deciding to shed their old…
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Yuri Shin’s From and For Me Is Like Morning Coffee for Your Soul—Simple, Honest, and So Good
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When I first played From and For Me by Yuri Shin, a strange image popped…
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Bomethius Explores the Boundaries of Fear and Freedom in His Most Intimate Album, Borrowed Time
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I’ve always had a soft spot for albums that feel like sturdy novels: the deeper…
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John the Baptist, Cinematic Guitars, and Philosophical Reflections: An Exclusive First Look at Valley of Salt’s New Album
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Brian Stemetzki, the mind behind Valley of Salt, is the kind of musician who demands…
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Thomas Hewitt Jones Just Dropped the Perfect Soundtrack for Ditching the City and Living Your Best Countryside Life: Rural TV Classical Review
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You know how sometimes you put on an album and—click—it instantly sweeps you into a…
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Started the New Year With Champagne and Snow, Ended Up Spiraling Into Jake Marshall’s Better Luck Next Time
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I rang in the New Year like any normal person—glass in one hand, a silly…
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Cagri Raydemir Has Always Experimented With Sound, But Indifference Feels Like the Moment He Fully Embraced His Role as a Sonic Storyteller
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Cagri Raydemir – a name that no longer requires an introduction among connoisseurs of the…
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CIONICO’s New EP ‘Spoken Portrait’: Rock with Heart on its Sleeve and a Foot in the Future
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Sometimes, an album lands on your playlist and feels like a snapshot of a place…
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