Taiwan Housing Project — Maintenance of an Application
Philadelphia’s Taiwan Housing Project, the brilliant post-punk collaboration project from Kilynn Lunsford and Mark Feehan, has come screeching onto the scene with…
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Soft Eyes — Stay Home
The boogie is strong with Soft Eyes on their most recent album. With Stay Home, the New Hampshire outfit refines its sound,…
The Foetals — “Fine”
Can you really have too much sunny, lo-fi indie-pop? The answer (at least in this author’s opinion) is a resounding “no!”, especially…
Wakes — “Gonzo”
The band formerly known as Polaroids, Wakes, is in the mood for summer loving. There’s a sunny haze across the horizon, fading…
Alto Jeffro — Horseneck Beach
Horseneck Beach is so strangely, yet perfectly titled. In terms of pure topical values—lyrical content, titles—each song makes no explicit mention of…
KATIE DEY — ASDFASDF
Orchid Tapes is one of the leading perpetrators of lo-fi pop music, and while the label as a whole tends to, at…
CLAIRE COTTRILL — CLAIRE COTTRILL EP
Nothing sucks quite like being a teenager. Right? Right. Everyone has (or had, or will have) their own coping methods to survive…
SP-MOLD — Midden
A midden is a pile of refuse. This album (this three-hour album) called MIDDEN is a gigantic pile of wobbly outcast funk….
Al Marantz — Forgotten Device
Al Marantz, the Cambridge-based writer and performer of regularly catchy, lo-fi pop tunes, has a way of reaching into thin air and…
Loaner Sunstone — Time Is a Machine
There’s that scene in Men In Black where J and K are in the elevator. J., having been invited to join the…
CAMPBELL KNEALE, ANTONY MILTON & KIYOHARU KUWAYAMA – CKAMKK
In 2006, old hand noise/sound artists CAMPBELL KNEALE, ANTONY MILTON—both of New Zealand—and Japan’s KIYOHARU KUWAYAMA (aka Lethe) got together in a…
XARKRINUR – DARK RITUALS
And now for something completely different. What do you think of when you think of Bangladesh? Islam? Tigers? Textile factory fires? Nothing…
