Such Tumult and Grace – “Vana Mundi” by Kleenex Girl Wonder
The key, y’see, is to concoct pop songs of a type no one’s ever heard before...
Author: Dave Cantrell
LIGHTNING STRIKES – Quick But Essential Reviews for the Discerning Listener
CHRIS BUTLER – “Got It Together!” (Future Fossil Records) Last we heard from Mr Chris Butler,...
What Happens When the Cerebral Meets the Id Uptown – LITHICS’ “Mating Surfaces”
How can I write a review I’ve already written? I can’t. How can Lithics match, and...
When the Needle’s Moved For You – Soft Kill’s “Savior”
Post-punk and the blues don’t often – OK, never – cross paths. Neither, despite some overlap...
Poignant, Biting, Vulnerable, Resilient, and Tuneful as F*** – Jesse Ainslie’s Full-Length Debut “Only in the Dark”
Elemental. While at its essence, of course, that word applies to, well, everything, it would seem,...
Hope Possible, Redemption Obtainable – Great Lakes’ Sixth LP “Dreaming Too Close to the Edge”
Having finally shame-on-me discovered them when tasked with reviewing fifth album Wild Vision in 2016 (twenty...
Maintaining the Yin-Yang Yung Wu Balance – Feelies Offshoot’s “Shore Leave” Reissued
Though backstory’s certainly important with a talent-freighted reissue like this, to overly expand upon it in...
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE ALBUM STREAM PREVIEW – The Chandler Travis Three-O’s “Backward, Crooked From the Sunset”
Irascibly savvy, a versatile, virtuosic musician that can seem both mad as a radish and as...
The Sound of Your Most Darkly Enchanted Summer Never Coming to an End – Death and the Maiden’s “Wisteria”
Surpassing yourselves on your second album, especially after your debut quietly blew people out of their...
The Offering of Multiple Gifts – A Hawk And A Hacksaw’s Seventh Album “Forest Bathing”
You really don’t write about music like this. You travel with it, experience, in a vicariously...