Grails Balance Their Scales: The Reckoning of ‘Anches En Maat’
Portland’s experimental post-rock kingpins Grails mark two decades since their debut with a new full-length retrospective LP and chat with PopMatters.
Katherine Factor
Katherine Factor is an editor, book coach, and the author of three Choose Your Own Adventure books. Her debut poetry book, A SYBIL SOCIETY, won the Interim poetics Test Site Poetry Prize.
Psych Power Trio Dommengang’s ‘Wished Eye’ Dominates Fate
The ooze Dommengang draw from in Wished Eye is a loose, unspun wool that’s part metallic, fuzz addiction, visionary production, power trio power, and all rock.
Americana’s Upstate Transform (Again!) in ‘You Only Get a Few’
Upstate’s You Only Get a Few pairs the unfamiliar discomfort of touring musicians surviving a pandemic – whose lives were already in flux – with the familiar.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Details Her Uncanny Sonic Alchemy
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s relationship with sound is in constant flux, and with her new album, her sonics disintegrate and rematerialize in fascinating new forms.
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Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ and the Power of I as Other
Kate Bush’s 1985 embrace of the Other in “Running Up That Hill” resonates with Gen- Z’s ethos by questioning the binaries of our programmed genders.
Our Unknown Topography: Psych Rockers Abronia on ‘Map of Dawn’
Lyrically and sonically, psych-rock band Abronia’s Map of Dawn explores an ever-shifting landscape of creases, caves, and unreliable ground.