A Canny Madness IS their Method – Stereo Total’s Twelfth “Ah! Quel Cinema!”
OK, look. Any band sufficiently endowed with such an intelligent depth of quirk as to inspire...
Author: Dave Cantrell
Stereo Embers’ EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE – TENTS’ “Medicine”
While the digital slush pile in all its abundance is, quite frequently, full of very promising...
The Textured Post-Punk Grace of Sômbre’s Debut “Linsay”
Like anyone in this music-hunting game, we live to be surprised. And while often, as is...
Saturated with Self-Assurance and a Kind of Calm Elan – The Schramms return with “Omnidirectional”
When you own a resumé full of bona fides such as feature on that with the...
The Glow Inside the Fade – John Howard’s Elegiac, Moving “Cut The Wire”
Perseverance, while in most instances viewed as a modest virtue in itself, should perhaps, at least...
A Yearning Paean to Hope and Extinction – “The Birmingham Poets” by Matthew Edwards & the Unfortunates
Oh, the questions, those pesky unanswerables. Stepping over the giantest of elephants that lies sleeping in...
Darkly Captivating – The Lush Dystopianism of Slighter’s “Automata”
If indeed we have radars, this guy Colin Cameron, doing deeply moody business under the Slighter...
Start Them Off Dark, Goth, and Full of Wonder – Gotikatur-illustrated Children’s Book Centered Around Wave-Gotik-Treffen Set to Emerge From the Shadows Soon
If there’s one thing Hamburg resident Christian Schaefer can be counted on, it’s that he’ll do...
An Unholy Tension – Clay Rendering’s Breathtaking and Dark “California Black Vows”
There are those bands that live, tantalizingly, in a netherworld. moving like heat mirages across a...
A Riot of Elegant Tensions – Darkswoon’s Accomplished Debut “Bind”
Sometimes from the subtlest sounds come the profoundest voices. Think Robert Wyatt, Young Marble Giants, think...