Bruno Major is Back!
By Julia Terhaerdt On June 5, Bruno Major self-released To Let A Good Thing Die, his second album after A Song For Every Moon in 2017. I spent the whole day spinning it. In the car on the way back … Read More >
Tag Archives: Album Review
Reflecting on Angel Olsen’s All Mirrors
By Riley Younger Angel Olsen tackles themes of love, taking a chance on it, losing it and expressing it on her fifth studio album, All Mirrors. The St. Louis native is known for her fluid and lyrically thoughtful melodies coupled … Read More >
How I’m feeling about “~how i’m feeling~”
By Martha Kowalski After many years it brings me great joy to finally say the words: Lauv has released a debut studio album. Since 2015, singer-songwriter Ari Staprans Leff – professionally known as Lauv – has produced dozens of songs … Read More >
Double Take: Princess Nokia’s Everything is Beautiful and Everything Sucks
by Shelby Len Brooklyn rapper Princess Nokia is no stranger to pushing the envelope of genre convention. She has a way of shapeshifting effortlessly between completely contradictory aesthetics, from her ethereal and futuristic 2014 mixtape Metallic Butterfly, to her … Read More >
Everything Seems to be Numbness Around: King Krule’s “Man Alive!” Review
by Sean Horvath Music has a tendency to focus on emotional extremes. Anything from triumphant joy to crushing heartbreak can be used as fuel in crafting a new hit album or single, and why shouldn’t it be? These are the … Read More >
Letting Noname Go: Room 25 Album Review
by Izzi Bavis [NOTE: I originally wrote this in June, 2019. There is a brief reflection at the end which was written in February, 2020.] It took me back to riding the Red Line on a freezing February night in … Read More >
Girl Band: “The Talkies” Review
Author: Daniel Palmeter Album Rating: Girl Band has a reputation for creating noisy music. That may even be an understatement. Their 2014 release Holding Hands With Jamie was received as a hallmark in the development of noise rock. And after … Read More >
NACC Top 5
WATERMELON COLLIE, Big Blue
TWIN PEAKS, Side A
BOYO, Where Have All My Friends Gone?
FANTASY NON FICTION, Fantasy Non Fiction
POTTERY, Welcome to Bobby's Motel