Reviews
Touché Amoré and Pianos Become the Teeth – Split 7″
Touché Amoré and Pianos Become The Teeth showcase a stellar performance in this split and prove why they are dominating this scene.
More Recent Reviews
Shawn Waters – Bury Heart
Brooklyn based singer-songwriter Shawn Waters preaches in earnest and sings of love, sin and God on this eight song debut.
The National – Trouble Will Find Me
The Brooklyn-based band’s sixth effort is another dazzling triumph, one that clearly places them – if they weren’t already – as one of the most important bands currently making music.
Graph Rabbit – Snowblind videos
Austin Donohue and Shy Kedmi have released an album of subtly wondrous beauty that recalls the lighter, wistful side of Thom Yorke and Jonsi.
Come – Eleven: Eleven (deluxe reissue)
Come’s still uncompromisingly raw debut album from 1992 gets the much-deserved reissue and reappraisal treatment.
Interviews
Interview with Scott Paterson of Sons And Daughters
Scott Paterson, co-vocalist and guitarist of Sons And Daughters, reminisces about his time in the Scottish, spectacular, and, sadly, now-defunct band.
Features
Artists On Albums: AOA#37 (Colleen on Moondog 2)
Cécile Schott (AKA Colleen) acknowledges her inspirational debt to the eccentric percussive magic of Moondog’s numerically monikered 1971 minimalistic opus.
Short Takes on 2 Albums and 2 EPs
Reviews of albums from Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy and Lost Animal and EPs from Bloody Knives and Ka Mate Ka Ora.
Artists On Albums: AOA#36 (Ghostwriter’s Mark Brend on American Gothic)
Ghostwriter’s Mark Brend salutes 1972’s landmark Elektra release from the ambitious, innovative, uncompromising and still misunderstood repertoire of the late great David Ackles.