Hater’s ‘Sincere’: The Scandinavian Hits Keep Coming
Hater’s Sincere provides yet more evidence that Scandinavia is home to some of the most satisfying and worthwhile music in today’s indie-rock world.
Marc Edelstein
An Ivy League education, two decades roaming corporate IT departments – and now Marc makes his living chasing drug addicts for rent money. But through it all, there was music.
Ferri-Chrome’s Dazzling Azure: Japanese Twee/Shoegaze Is Just Muscular Enough
Ferri-Chrome mixes Japanese shoegaze and twee-pop into a focused and eminently listenable homage to 1990s Lush on Dazzling Azure.
The Church’s Steve Kilbey Talks “Blurred Crusade Live”: The Greatest ’80s Concert You’ve Never Seen
Classic concert “Blurred Crusade Live” launches the Church to a place few bands ever reach, on stage or anywhere else. It’s a golden moment of transcendent ’80s rock joy.
Shoegaze’s Whimsical Improves After 10-Year Hiatus with ‘Melt’
Whimsical’s Melt strikes a pleasing balance between droning Slowdive wash and a more kinetic Lush vitality – while also unafraid to slow things down.
Priestgate’s ‘Eyes Closed for the Winter’ Is a Promising ’80s-style Debut
From its very first notes, Priestgate’s debut EP maintains enough fresh personality to differentiate the band from their avowed early ’80s mentors.
No Suits in Miami Go .38 Special Scandinavian Style
By pumping things up with a classic 1980s arena aesthetic, No Suits in Miami’s Nothing Ever Happens radiates enough summery intensity for tape-deck cruisers to savor.
Drug Couple’s ‘Stoned Weekend’ Shows Enormous Potential
Drug Couple’s latest, Stoned Weekend, is somewhat uneven, generally successful, but boasting an album side’s worth of stunning songs not to be missed.
Young Guv’s ‘GUV III’: Flocking With Byrds
Young Guv’s GUV III possesses irresistible rockin’ energy: a modern sugar rush of Byrdsian guitar and harmony, all in service of that high-school crush you never saw again.
‘Cosmologica’ is the First Great Prog Album of the Century
If post-1978 prog-rock resembles a parched desert, Circe Link and Christian Nesmith represent our binary Moses: desperately awaited and here to lead us out of the wilderness.