Experimental folk artist Crosby Morgan will release her new EP Rain Games for the Natural Born Pariah on November 2nd, 2018. In Rain Games for the Natural Born Pariah, Crosby has created an emotional landscape of isolation, sadness, curiosity, and brazen self-questioning. The album tracks Morgan’s earnest and true pursuit of reaching an understanding of her own existence with… Continue reading CROSBY MORGAN’S Rain Games for the Natural Born Pariah Out November 2nd, 2018
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Album Review: Patrick Grant’s Re-Release of FIELDS AMAZE and other sTRANGE music
FIELDS AMAZE and other sTRANGE music exceeded my expectations of an album with “creative” capitalization in its title. Patrick Grant’s work was originally released in 1998, featuring “percussion, gamelan, microtonal instruments, and electric chamber ensembles with narrative structures informed by chaos theory, biological forms, and B-horror films.” (Goddamn, that’s a mouthful…) Now for the album’s twentieth… Continue reading Album Review: Patrick Grant’s Re-Release of FIELDS AMAZE and other sTRANGE music
Baldwin’s Choice: Ulver
Most well-established experimental bands have two things to worry about. They need to remain artistically fresh, but they also need to appease a fanbase. A group like Radiohead has no intentions of staying in one place, despite the incredible success they’ve had in the past with a sound like Ok Computer. But they still need… Continue reading Baldwin’s Choice: Ulver
Poetry and Profanity: A Shearwater and Reg Bloor Split Review
Shearwater: Jet Plane and Oxbow Shearwater has produced one of my top ten favorite records of the past twenty years. Rook was an absolute masterpiece. A short but undeniably powerful piece of indie rock that in my mind, lived on the cold rocky shoreline of Eastern Maine and sung pop anthems to the more melancholic… Continue reading Poetry and Profanity: A Shearwater and Reg Bloor Split Review
A Tyranny of Vastness: Eight Bells’ Melynda Jackson and Haley Westeiner on Their New Album, Their New Drummer, and More
Eight Bells plays a hypnotic form of experimental/progressive loud rock that references everything from metal to kraut rock. The band, which features Melynda Jackson (guitar/vocals) and Haley Westeiner (bass/vocals) and new drummer Rae Amitay (Immortal Bird), is about to drop their excellent new album Landless, on February 12 through Battleground Records. They are also embarking… Continue reading A Tyranny of Vastness: Eight Bells’ Melynda Jackson and Haley Westeiner on Their New Album, Their New Drummer, and More