Photo via Ian Sweet’s Bandcamp There is something comforting in the expected. People like routines, but then even routine expectations can become unexpected. What I’m saying is that maybe…
Photo via mothers.bandcamp.com Rating: 4.5 stars “Render Another Ugly Method” is the second proper LP from the indie group Mothers. Their first album was the kind of pleasant…
Photo via Bandcamp “Mother of My Children” is the debut album from Katherine Paul, also known as Black Belt Eagle Scout. The album, coming out…
Courtesy of island.bandcamp.com Just when you thought England couldn’t produce another hip alternative band, London’s own ISLAND proves otherwise. It is that guitar-driven, endlessly melodic band you have…
Courtesy of Matador Records It may not be most fitting to call Yo La Tengo (YLT) darlings of indie music, being the giants that they are. But despite their…
bandcamp.com American Pleasure Club (APC), formerly Teen Suicide, is a Baltimore-based indie rock band, though the styles and influences they draw from can make them appear…
Photo courtesy of bandcamp.com People like to comment on how trends repeat in the music industry. One trend is the re-emergence of artists that have a distinctly ‘80s sound…
courtesy of genius.com It might be a little cliche to summarize 2017 as a year for music, and it may very well not have been. Though to say…
Photo courtesy of reptaliens.bandcamp.com On the surface, Reptaliens’ FM-2030 appears to be a more conventional-sounding indie pop type album: it’s clean, dreamy, overall a pleasant experience for the ears.…
Photo courtesy of WMEB 91.9FM. Plenty of artists in various scenes have sounds that one would imagine go quite well together. Like if Radiohead and Bjork did a collaboration or…