Deakin – Sleep Cycle
Feelings of doubt, disillusionment, and anxiety permeate throughout Sleep Cycle, the debut release from Deakin (aka Josh Dibb, founding member of Animal…
self released
Squelcher — “Acquire and Borrow”
Last night I had an interesting conversation with someone about human identity and its chronological dependence on itself to unfold in a…
WORTHY CAUSE: DEBO BAND’S SECOND ALBUM
After recording their big, boisterous debut album in 2012 at Machines with Magnets for Sub Pop, 12-piece Ethopian funk arrangers DEBO BAND…
ULAAN PASSERINE – BYZANTIUM CROW
Byzantium Crow, as with last year’s self-titled release, musically mimics the many assumed guises of mythic luthier and multi-instrumentalist Stephen R. Smith….
ANNIKKI DAWN – CHIEFS OF THE LOST
Don your antlers and mix your pigments of blood and dirt – let us assemble for seasonal rites! Annikki Dawn make hushed,…
DEAD MEADOW, GHOST BOX ORCHESTRA, SAND RECKONER @ THE SINCLAIR
DEAD MEADOW’s music is similar to a tornado; ominous, hypnotic, and it commands elementary powers, leaving behind a trail of destruction. Monstrously…
MARK BUFFALO – THE BFLO EP
The art for this digital release from Mark Buffalo, new project of Allston folk weirdo Greg Crotty (The Cattle Walk, ex-Friendo), corresponds…
STRICT AGNOSTICS – WET BRAIN
Sometimes, I treat music too abstractly. Sometimes, when I aim to draw larger conclusions about what-it-all-means-man, I lose myself and limit the…
HORSEHANDS – SIRS
Horsehands bill themselves as “spazz-jazz-hardcore-prog”, and their excellent debut Sirs certainly careens around the stylistic spectrum with the open-mouthed mania of a…
DAN SHEA’S TOP 75 (?!) RECORDS OF 2012
Dan Shea plays in the NEEDY VISIONS, organizes shows as B.O.W. Shows & Boston Hassle Shows, and writes for and helps run…
