Category: Album
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Wild West: Grant Maloy Smith Puts Bass Reeves, Sacajawea, and the Trail of Tears Alongside Cowboy Mythology
The hardcover book arrived first in my thinking, before the music. Grant Maloy Smith wrote it, illustrated it, ninety pages, companion to the double album. That detail keeps pulling at…
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Alex Solely’s Cascade: Essential Minimalism with a Quietly Complicated Personality
On my first listen to Alex Solely’s forthcoming Cascade, I admired the calm, marked Cascade of Nothing as the obvious centerpiece, and assumed the album had already disclosed its entire…
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Tainted by Geoffrey Lewis: An Experimental Indie Rock Album Worth Discussing
I tend to grow suspicious when a home studio becomes the headline of an album. The phrase can excuse unfinished decisions or lend ordinary recordings an instant mythology of solitude.…
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Halfway Through Orbitheory: Apex, Vincent Projects Erases the Word “Compilation”
Some albums introduce themselves immediately. Orbitheory: Apex spent its first few minutes doing something far more irritating: it kept making me forget that I was listening to a compilation. I…
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CGMB’s Set Your Heart Ablaze Earns Every One of Its Twenty-Six Tracks
CGMB (who built this entire album alone, bedroom-produced, self-mixed, self-mastered) answers both questions in the affirmative, and the arc he’s constructed across the runtime earns the length in a way…
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Ghosts, Fog and Neon Lights: A Journey into Other Worlds with the EP ‘Five Phantoms’ by Former Child Star
Our hero, a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Brisbane, effortlessly transports the listener to the edge of the real and the mystical. His music is the complete opposite of Australia’s sunny…
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The Most Atmospheric Release of the Season? Stephanie Babirak Enchants with Her Album ‘Rotten Fruit’
Hazy, cinematic and very captivating. ‘Rotten Fruit’ by Stephanie Babirak is exactly like that. And, most likely, it is due to the classical harp, cinematic arrangements, atmospheric vocals of Stephanie…
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The Debut LP ‘The Musical Bruises of a Recovering Dreamer’ by Scooter Scudieri Is a Story You Need to Hear
The album, ‘The Musical Bruises of a Recovering Dreamer,’ consists of 12 tracks and sounds like a greeting from the 70s and 80s. You know the kind, driving drums, guitars,…
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Why Shu Lee’s New Album ‘Octopus Fox’ Is 2026’s Most Ambitious Release
The 17 subgenre branches and 27 languages within the release form a unique worldview and shape its overall dramaturgy.
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Audren Came Back From Silence with Her New LP ‘Think Freedom’
The arrangements here are dense, deliberate, layered by session players whose résumés span Ray Charles to Marcus Miller’s orbit, and you can hear every dollar of that experience in the…