Album Of The Week

Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night

After four years of singles and EPs, Brooklyn’s Crystal Stilts have finally braved the waters of a full-length and like all good things, it’s well been worth the wait. A minute on Google will provide you with all the comparisons and supposed influences your heart desires (Joy Division and the Jesus and Mary Chain being [...]

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Southern Gothic, Dark Americana: An Exploration»

A mix of gothic inner-city Americana and sharp-tongued songwriting in a triumph of mood best describes this latest sub-genre of roots music, merging carefully crafted folk harmonies, country balladry, r&b, and gritty Southern rock. Raucous yet thoughtful, this forward-thinking Americana balances attitude, energy, and back porch songcraft at its finest. These are the most serious [...]

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November’s Sixty-Six Singles»

Our third installment of monthly singles is for the month of November and serves an eclectic mix of tracks taken from October releases, upcoming winter albums, and recent promotional singles. Several choices have already been highlighted here, either as featured reviews or select singles, but the great majority are brand new tracks for your sampling [...]

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Love - Forever Changes»

Everyone knows that Forever Changes is often labeled as a “psychedelic masterpiece” on the level of Blonde on Blonde and Astral Weeks — an album that draws critical superlatives like “indescribably essential” from critics and gets tip top ranking of most hip top-100-albums-of-all-time lists. So how come nobody but the English (where it reached #25 [...]

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Arcade Fire: Canada’s Most Intriguing Indie»

In the first half of the ’00s, thanks to the Constantines, Unicorns and New Pornographers (to name a few), the international indie rock audience finally began to wake up to the long-thriving Canadian scene. In 2004, Arcade Fire became one of the most warmly received and widely celebrated Montreal acts in some time. Propping up [...]