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![Local Review: Dwellers – Pagan Fruit](/uploads/308/8065-dwellers-crop-396x288.jpg)
Local Review: Dwellers – Pagan Fruit
Producing more of their psych-tinged “gut rock,” Dwellers have doubled down on the space rock sound that they experimented with on Good Morning Harakiri. The resulting album is unbelievably laid back, sounding a lot like mid-’90s stoner rock but without the angst-driven intensity. … read more
![Local Review: Christopher Alvarado – Infinita](/uploads/308/8064-christopher%20alvarado%20infinita-crop-396x288.jpg)
Local Review: Christopher Alvarado – Infinita
This is a release you want to listen to when you just need a moment to relax. This ambient mood music has everything you need to calm down or practice your naked yoga. … read more
![Local Review: Christopher Alvarado – Creation By Inertia](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/christopher-alvarado-creation-by-inertia.jpg)
Local Review: Christopher Alvarado – Creation By Inertia
A well-crafted soundscape album, Creation by Inertia showcases a serene expedition through space and time. It’s droney, ambient and true to the experimental genre. … read more
![Local Review: Bird Watcher – The Luna Sessions](/uploads/308/8057-bird%20watcher-crop-396x288.jpg)
Local Review: Bird Watcher – The Luna Sessions
In the ghetto, a “Bird Watcher” means something totally different than this sonically adventurous, emotionally distraught collection of songs from these shape-shifting Ogden musicians. I would know because Cincinnati has ghettos. … read more
![Local Review: Ben Q. Best – Apricot Exorcist](/uploads/308/8055-ben%20q%20best-crop-396x288.jpg)
Local Review: Ben Q. Best – Apricot Exorcist
Though his songs are tinged with a kind of delicate earnestness, Ben Q Best excels most in his ability to craft unique melodic passages that carry the darker themes of this album. His voice warbles and wanes through layers of shoegazey post-rock and quiet piano passages. … read more
![Local Review: Bat Manors – Literally Weird](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bat-manors-literally-weird-1.jpg)
Local Review: Bat Manors – Literally Weird
Bat Manors are the latest in the growing tradition of indie whisper-core bands from Provo with punny names who manage to transcend their silly titles with some really great songs. … read more
![August 2014 Local Music Reviews](/uploads/308/8011-august%20local-crop-396x288.jpg)
August 2014 Local Music Reviews
Local reviews for Bat Manors, Ben Q. Best, Bird Watcher, Christopher Alvarado, Dwellers, Masked Epsilon, Mkaio, DJ Sparx, Strong Words, Tiger Fang and more. … read more
![Local Review: Visitors – Blueshift](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/visitors-blueshift-album-artwork.jpg)
Local Review: Visitors – Blueshift
Visitors Blueshift Self-Released Street: 06.20 Visitors = Deftones + Rush Rarely does an EP sound so much like a full-fledged album. Musical offerings of such satisfying integrity do not hatch, fully formed, by sheer happenstance. Blueshift combines fist-sized chunks of aboriginal talent with months of coffee-addicted, all-night hunkering sessions, to yield prog metal that feels
![Local Review: VISTAAS – Sunkhronos](/uploads/307/7910-vistaas-crop-396x288.jpg)
Local Review: VISTAAS – Sunkhronos
VISTAAS Sunkhronos Self-Released Street: 01.14 VISTAAS = Pierre Schaeffer + Oneohtrix Point Never Sunkhronos is a sample-heavy, cut-up work. This record has the feel of a found cassette in sections—the rare type where ferric tape hiss actually adds to the musicality. I would refer to it as musique concrète more readily than, say, a beat
![Local Review: Sam Page – The Slog in Uncertainty](/uploads/307/7909-slog_converted-crop-396x288.jpg)
Local Review: Sam Page – The Slog in Uncertainty
Sam Page The Slog In Uncertainty Self-Released Street: 05.01 Sam Page = Pixies + Placebo + The Red Hot Chili Peppers The blind passion and talent for melody that came out of the early ’90s summarizes this album completely. The fact that it’s the brainchild of a Utahn just makes my music geek heart sing.