Authors: Ryan Hall
Review: Sankt Otten – Messias Maschine
If you couldn’t tell from the band’s name, album title or album cover, this band is German. Waaay German. … read more
Review: Seams – Quarters
Quarters utilizes crisp, unadorned beats that snap and pop in crystal-clear hi fidelity. These simple chord progressions and beats are then added on layer by layer with buzzing synths and serrated arpeggios until the sum eventually outweighs its parts, but not without leaving a golden thread back to the beginning. … read more
Review: Rachel Grimes – The Clearing
Rachel Grimes = Balmorhea + Speaks Volumes–era Nico Muhly + Rachel’s … read more
Review: Roger O’Donnell with Julia Kent
Roger O’Donnell with Julia Kent = Peter Broderick + Hauschka + A Winged Victory For the Sullen … read more
Review: Ron Morelli – A Gathering Together
Ron Morelli = Corporate Park + Vereker + Violet Poison … read more
Review: Radis Benu – les prsctvs
Radis Benu = William Basinski + The Caretaker + Philip Jeck
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Review: Ryan Choi – Whenmill
Ryan Choi = William Anderson + Jack Rose + Ava Mendoza … read more
Review: Russian Circles – Memorial
When did Russian Circles transition from a second-tier post-rock band to a peerless post-everything behemoth of hair-trigger precision and cathartic terror-beauty? Russian Circles have been playing lately like the mid-’00s post-rock boom never happened. … read more
Review: Porya Hatami – Arrivals and Departures
Porya Hatami = Siavash Amini + Asfandyar Khan + Stars of the Lid … read more
Review: Pure X – Crawling Up The Stairs
Where Crawling up the Stairs doesn’t confront immediately with a sense of deep self-loathing, it seethes. Pure X is disarming in the way Nate Grace and Jesse Jenkin’s songs belie their distressed core by being quite pretty and non-confrontational. … read more