Black Belt Eagle Scout Hones Her Message and Perfects Her Sound
With her third album, Black Belt Eagle Scout dazzles us with lush atmospheres, seismic rhythms, and a voice that unfurls from another and perhaps a better world.
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Black Belt Eagle Scout Draws Us Deeper Into Her Life with ‘At the Party With My Brown Friends’
Black Belt Eagle Scout’s sincere songwriting makes for an exquisite, intensely personal sophomore album in At the Party With My Brown Friends.
Stef Chura’s ‘Midnight’ Is a Scorching, Emotive Indie Rock Masterstroke
Midnight fulfills Stef Chura's promise. Broad in scope, its 12 songs cover a range of moods, tones, and energies.
Open to Interpretation: The Knotty Songs of Hop Along
Frances Quinlan has spent nearly half her life in Hop Along and now, performing songs she wrote in her teens, 20s, and 30s, she raises interesting questions around identity, the self, and the way that music continues to evolve after the artist is done with it.
Hand Habits’ ’placeholder’ Is Nothing of the Sort
Meg Duffy's second Hand Habits album offers some of the most insightful commentary you are likely to hear on the tumults and vicissitudes of the human heart.
Your Tape Is Our Tape: Mike Mogis Looks Back on Bright Eyes
The saga told across The Studio Albums: 2000-2011 isn't just the story of Conor Oberst's evolution as a songwriter. It's also the story of Mike Mogis's evolution as a producer.
Who Cleans Up When the Party’s Over? An Interview with the Good Life
Eight years since their last effort, Tim Kasher of Cursive and Ryan Fox shake that "other band" tag by making their best, weirdest disc yet.
Cursive: The Ugly Organ (Reissue)
Cursive's much-loved rage cannon of a record has been remastered, allowing one to hear every mangled guitar chord, every abused organ note, every polyp in Kasher's throat. It's makes a legendarily bilious album even more so, like watching surgery in HD.