Animal Collective Give Us Their Most Accessible Album with ‘Time Skiffs’
Time Skiffs finds Animal Collective in a calm, contemplative state yet places them closer in style to most indie rock bands.
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Bowerbirds Get Introspective and Melancholy on ‘becalmyounglovers’
Indie folks’ Bowerbirds wonder what happens when young love disappears over time on the melancholy and reflective new album Becalmyounglovers.
A Krautrock Maestro and Folk Singer Team up for a Masterpiece
Krautrock’s Detlef Weinrich and folk’s Emmanuelle Parrenin team up for Jours de Grave, and it’s damn near perfect. It feels too organic and alive to be called “avant-garde”, even though it is.
Dave Scanlon’s ‘Pink in each, bright blue, bright green’ Is a Stark, Deeply Elegant Solo Work
Dave Scanlon, the singer and guitarist of Brooklyn's JOBS, offers a stripped-down collection of songs that retains the unique intensity of his more complex work.
Six Organs of Admittance Brings the Cosmos Down to Earth
Six Organs of Admittance's Companion Rises begins and ends in a pre-dawn haze, shadowed by an inky sky that stretches out toward the cosmos before landing softly back on Earth.
Get ‘Up on High’ with Vetiver
Vetiver get intimate by addressing one person at a time on their new album, Up on High. This music is for dancing alone in one's mind.
Devendra Banhart Finds His ‘Ma’ in Everything
Devendra Banhart's latest album, Ma, is a tender, beautiful meditation on the bonds that ties us together.
The Life and Times of Cerberus Shoal
Underground experimental rock sonic adventurers Cerberus Shoal get a much needed re-release of their essential records through Temporary Residence.
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – “Blueberry Jam” (track review)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's "Blueberry Jam" is a drug-induced, fruit-fueled criticism of the world we live in today.
Billy Wylder Wants Us to Hear the “Roar of the Wild” (premiere)
Former Bombino guitarist Avi Salloway brings his own brand of songwriting to the fore with multifaceted quartet Billy Wylder and their new song "Roar of the Wild".
CocoRosie: Heartache City
Still taking on taboos, CocoRosie's latest effort Heartache City finds melodic wonder in a fiery cosmos that is their poetry and horror.