Eleanor Friedberger: New View
New View lacks some of the experimentation that was common during work with The Fiery Furnaces, but is still worth a listen.
Music Reviews
Raoul Bjorkenheim/eCsTaSy: Out of the Blue
Bjorkenheim and eCsTaSy loaded this album with as much texture and imagination as they could.
NZCA Lines: Infinite Summer
NZCA Lines’ (pronounced NAHZ-ca) second album is pleasant, fun electro-pop with some sci-fi themes. The main jam is deff "Two Hearts."
The Ocean Party: Light Weight
If you like mellow tunes, meaningful lyrics, or Australian accents, this is the album for you.
Wray: Hypatia
Wonderful shoegaze from the deep south.
Shearwater: Jet Plane and Oxbow
The art-folk-rock group's first album in four years is a welcome change in direction.
Applesauce Tears: Alpha Drift
This album is for anyone who wants to reach a mellow headspace, or for anyone who has been catching up on “The X-Files.”
Night Beats: Who Sold My Generation
Nights Beats hail from Seattle and craft an upbeat, distorted, twangy garage rock album consisting of '60s psych rock with a groovy twist.
Daughter: Not to Disappear
Not to Disappear is spacey and new-age while retaining Daughter's contemplative style.
Hinds: Leave Me Alone
Many tracks on Leave Me Alone seem to be the garage rock lovechild of Girlpool, Courtney Barnett and Best Coast.
Mozes and the Firstborn: Mozes and the Firstborn
Mozes and the Firstborn craft irresistible garage (or basement) rock on their self-titled, debut LP.
Devin Sinha: Our Past and Present Futures
A folk rock album worth a listen if not solely for the time and effort Sinha has put into it.
Atlantic Thrills: Vices
Surf music, crystalline post-rock and indie attitude masquerade as garage punk in a jovial and contemplative array of compositions.
Baroness: Purple
Baroness is back! Purple finds them perfecting their potent mix of sludge, hard rock, stoner rock and progressive rock for new audiences.
Tycho: Awake Remixes
The cast of guests featured have done Awake a great service by showcasing a taste and approach capable of taking eight tracks to another level while still turning out an inherently ‘Tycho’ record.
The Besnard Lakes: A Coliseum Complex Museum
Besnard Lake lies in the beautiful forested country of Saskatchewan pockmarked by deep blue lakes, & is the summer land of inspiration for Montreal based artist of the same name.
Archy Marshall: A New Place 2 Drown
Getting wonderfully lost in this LP is inevitable.
Pusha T: King Push — Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude
Pusha T emanates a confident classiness and seasoned sound in the contemporary time capsule that is King Push — Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude.
Jabril Power: Skin
Skin is one of those rare projects that creates a lyrical narrative for this new, wavy sound vision.
Berwanger: Demonios
Once a member of former Lawrence rock band The Anniversary circa the 1990s, Demonios is the latest from Josh Berwanger.
GoldLink: And After That, We Didn’t Talk
GoldLink skillfully takes you through hybrid hip-hop beats and slowed R&B ventures that all work in unison in this dynamic collection of tracks.
Yak: No
It's too bad that the No EP is only three songs because it's exceptional.
MED, Blu & Madlib: Bad Neighbor
Bad Neighbor is the latest from Madlib since the Trouble Knows Me EP released in September with Future Islands' Sam Herring, and his first full-length release since 2014's Piñata.
St. Germain: St. Germain
This album is a ticket to Brazil, Mali, Kansas City, and France all at once.