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You can designate records as seasonal, and you can feel Preoccupation's Viet Cong's bleakness and declare it wintry. But the only way you get a frost is when there's something warmer to freeze up.
Masterful noise/punk produced by Chad Vangaalen. Intricate guitar work backed by one of the greatest rhythm sections there ever was that culminated to an implosion on stage. Essential.
Sharon Van Etten’s Remind Me Tomorrow comes four years after Are We There, and reckons with the life that gets lived when you put off the small and inevitable maintenance in favor of something more present.
"Her songs are heartfelt without seeming overly earnest, her poetry is plainspoken but not overt, and her voice is elegant but wrapped in enough rasp and sorrow to keep from sounding too pure or confident."
-Robin Hilton, NPR's All Songs Considered
The descent into darkness is a trope we find time again across history, literature and film - a protagonist plunging further and further into the depths. But there is also an abyss above.
Dinosaur (later to be renamed Dinosaur Jr.) recorded their debut album in 1985 for $500 at a home studio in the woods outside Northampton, Massachusetts. On the strength of that album, they begin to play shows down south in NYC. There they met Sonic Youth
How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? marks Big Red Machine’s second album and follows their 2018 self-titled debut. Dessner produced the album at his Long Pond studio in upstate New York, and it features an array of guest vocalists.
Jamila Woods's cultural lineage - from her love of Lucille Clifton's poetry to letters from her grandmother and the late '80s post-punk of The Cure - helped structure the progressive, delicate and minimalist soul of HEAVN, her debut solo album. HEAVN was
As Margaret intended, 'Romantic Piano' touches on a rare feeling in art often only reserved for the cinema - a simultaneous wide-lens awe of existence and the post-language intimate inner monologue of being marooned in these skulls of ours.
We've Been Going About This All Wrong, concerns itself with how we feel, mourn, and reclaim our agency when we think the world - or at least, our world - might be falling apart.
Sharon Van Etten writes from free-flowing emotional honesty and vulnerability, creating a bond with the listener that few contemporary musicians can match. It's a self-produced album of exceptional intimacy, sublime generosity, and immense breadth.
Vocalist/guitarist J. Mascis sounds somewhat brighter and more emotional than in recent times, and his guitar work is as stellar and incendiary as ever. All in all, 'Farm' sees Dinosaur Jr. continuing to rock out inventively and satisfyingly.
2012 release from the Alt-Rock heroes, the third Dinosaur Jr. album since the original trio J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph reformed in 2005. And, crazily, it marks the band's 10th studio album since their debut on Homestead Records in 1985.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the now legendary album 'Public Strain', Women are releasing a special limited edition clear vinyl pressing of the album and a new five-song collection of material titled 'Rarities 2007-2010.' 2020
Aromanticism was written over the course of 3 years-a process which invited Moses Sumney to reflect on an intimate level. This album invites listeners into the parts of the self that society encourages us to silence for the sake of our sanity.
