A truly organic intersection of styles and rhythms, Hugh Harsher’s “off the beaten track” proves to be a blissed-out work of wonder. The loose, sun drenched approach has a jazzy…
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A mysterious aura permeates the whole of Cassilda and Carcosa’s “On The Shores of Hali”. With such unique literary references embedded in the artist’s name and the EP itself, it…
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A bright, joyous celebration of sound rolls through Foux’s sun-soaked “Afrikaans”. Utilizing the right level of play, his effortless interweaving of textures recalls Four Tet’s collage-like approach. The usage of…
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With a sound uniquely her own, Rasha Jay delves into a lush otherworldly atmosphere on the soothing “High Dive”. An effortless blend of R&B, soul, the blues, funk, and a…
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A long-forgotten dream emerges on the lush shoegaze inflections of mercvrial’s “the stars, like dust”. With a purely timeless sound, they have a feeling of true weightlessness. Their melodies have…
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Image Credit: Aaron Brame 1994. I drove around Memphis in my little green car with the big dent on the side. The speakers shook as Kathleen Hanna screamed, Suck my…
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Sung with such soulfulness, Richard Murray offers stories from a life lived most fully on the poetic “The Long Haul”. With firm roots in a traditional rustic country charm the…
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Blast Grave Robbert’s “The Nightmare Begins” as loud as you possibly can, for this is a physical assault on the senses. A pure piece of unhinged chaos, this is a…
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Peter Arvidson’s “A New Wilderness” has a dreamy, literary bent to it. The lyrics have an impressionistic quality to them as they tell stories of lives lived to the absolute…
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My grandfather’s house stood on the corner of Beech Street in northeast Portland. The two-story home, shaded by tall and leafy trees, sat adjacent to a garage, a workspace filled…
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In the waning hours of my 27th birthday, I learned that someone with whom I’d been briefly acquainted had died. We had met exactly twice: at an old friend’s college…
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“The Intro and The Vibe”: I was about to leave a party at my friends’ apartment in Williamsburg. Sometimes you stay late at a party sometimes you don’t. Nothing negative,…
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Dale Cazenave delves into a raw, rollicking rock and roll spirit with the stunning “Swamp Stories”. A true joy to behold, this is what it sounds like when rock gets…
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What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of Japan? It could be anime, samurai, capsule hotels, high-speed bullet trains, insane vending machines, or its…
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