Gia Margaret Perfects Her Voice on ‘Romantic Piano’
Gia Margaret’s Romantic Piano is informed by innocence and experience, and has gorgeous moments replacing silence by reorganizing background sounds of everyday life.
Music Reviews
Beach Fossils’ Guitars Jangle and Sparkle on ‘Bunny’
Beach Fossils’ Bunny is a pure, seamless combination of pristine production and newfound maturity with a post-punk-influenced, guitar-driven sound.
Water From Your Eyes Glance at Stardom with ‘Everyone’s Crushed’
Water From Your Eyes traffic between experimental music of the krautrock period of the late 1960s and early 1970s and today’s feminine pop sensibility.
Cathedral Bells Improve Their Bedroom Pop on ‘Everything at Once’
Matt Messore’s latest release covers well-trod territory. But Cathedral Bells’ target dream-pop demographic will devour Everything at Once with relish.
Lana Del Rey Lets the Light in on Her New Album
With Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Lana Del Rey implores us not to forget her and has ensured that we can’t possibly.
Graham Nash Gets Personal About Past, Present, and Future in ‘Now’
Now reminds of the treasure that Graham Nash has been and continues to be in the ongoing narrative of rock music and it’s a snapshot of the creative spark.
Paul Simon Is Still a Rock on ‘Seven Psalms’
Seven Psalms is Paul Simon’s 15th solo album and in it, he confronts his mortality head-on and wonders about God, the reasons for existence, and death.
Joy Oladokun Offers Healing Hymns For Fraught Times in ‘Proof of Life’
Joy Oladokun’s Proof of Life attempts to connect with others struggling, hanging in, and moving forward, an invitation traversing musical genres in its call.
Doug Levitt Rides the Bus to the ‘Edge of Everywhere’
Doug Levitt is a journalist with a guitar, and Edge of Everywhere tells the tales of his 12 years and 120,000 miles riding the Greyhound bus all over America.
RP Boo’s ‘Legacy Volume 2’ Reminds of Chicago Footwork’s Radical Origins
Anyone coming to RP Boo or footwork in general via this release needs to be prepared to have their bones rearranged and their senses overloaded.
Fatoumata Diawara Creates African Pop-Soul From the Diaspora
On her strongest album yet, London Ko, Fatoumata Diawara demonstrates how music from today’s African diaspora can be “Everything Everywhere All at Once”.
Dave Scanlon’s ‘Taste Like Labor’ Is Quietly Intense
Dave Scanlon’s Taste Like Labor straddles a line between dark folk and fractured indie pop on his first solo album in more than two years.
