SHADOWPLAY: A Post-Punk/Darkwave Overview – GOLDEN APES “M Ʌ L V S,” FOREVER GREY “Alabaster Chamber”
You know how it is. A band that has mysteriously escaped your notice even though they’ve...
Author: Dave Cantrell
Floating with a Cynical Delicacy between Despair and Reverie – Dark Globes “Everyone I Know is Falling Apart”
If for nothing else we can rate the just-released Everyone I Know is Falling Apart, the debut...
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE DEBUT ALBUM STREAM – Bastards of Fate’s Batshit Wonderful New Album “Suck the Light Out” including a track-by-track rundown by the band
Look. We don’t know how else to say this. NO ONE ELSE COMPARES! Well, that’s one...
A Tense Harmony Meets a Splendidly Controlled Chaos – Trance To The Sun’s “Via Subterranea”
There are any number of factors that can exert existential pressure on a band’s viability. One...
Stereo Embers EXCLUSIVE ALBUM STREAM – Veteran Nashville session man Matt North’s deeply assured debut “Above Ground Fools”
Man, we gotta say, this business? Sometimes it just lands you flat on your ass. Actually,...
Toiling in a Plangent Vein – Matt North’s Very Fine Debut “Above Ground Fools”
And they come from every gully and byway, from every two-bit post-industrial wasteland, every stultified mall-littered...
Beauty, Invention, and a Freshness That Outstrips Reliability
It’s normally January when we here at SEM adopt some version of the editorial mea culpa...
Picking Up the Pieces at Last – The Jigsaw Seen’s “For the Discriminating Completist”
So I’m sitting here trying to figure what the hell happened. Again. I’ve seen the name...
Blow Out the Candles – Surviving the Death of David Robert Jones
This is not an obituary – there have been enough of those, many written by writers...
Senior Editor Dave Cantrell’s TOP TEN NOTABLE ALBUMS OF 2016 (non post-punk edition)
OK, look. If I’m to be such a fool and concoct a New Year’s resolution –...