As I discovered, when seeking to identify a “best of” or the “essential,” the quest becomes increasingly elusive the longer I think about the possibilities. Therefore, I begin with a caveat that if sounding dangerously like […]
“Prog-folk”. Described as “prog-folk”, “pop-prog” and “baroque-pop” Black Country, New Road captured this reviewer’s imagination before they played a single note. Include their further classifications of “alt-rock”, “post-rock” and “post-punk” and the mind, genre-wise, becomes somewhat […]
John Moreland has been widely covered in these pages to unanimous praise for the heartfelt candour in which this songwriter from Tulsa tells his stories from the gloomier end of the human condition. Moreland has been […]
Empathetic stories of life in a small town. This album is a collection of stories about people in a small town who are living their lives as best as they can. They are getting by, but […]
A psychedelic cumbia journey into the underworld. Lest our dear readers think this review is in some kind of code, an explanation. XIXA is the name of a band who blend their Latin roots into a […]
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