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Pete Yorn – ArrangingTime (2016)
Arriving after a six-year silence, ArrangingTime does seem like something of a rebirth for Pete Yorn: it finds the singer/songwriter re-teaming with his original producer R. Walt Vincent and debuting...
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Carter Tanton – Jettison the Valley (2016)
Carter Tanton is a tough guy to pin down. Since 2005, he’s fronted hyped rock bands (the sadly defunct Tulsa), released solo records that jumped wildly from genre to genre, and collaborated with...
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Emmy the Great – Second Love (2016)
Having released the breakup-fueled Virtue (and a Christmas album and an EP) in the period since her 2009 debut, First Love, Emmy the Great returns with a nod to the latter album’s heart health in...
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Lucius – Good Grief [Deluxe Edition] (2016)
Lucius‘ full-length debut, Wildewoman, packaged the seductive, tandem lead vocals of Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig in a musical array that spanned earthy folk textures and dramatic, ’80s-glossed...
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Blancmange – Commuter 23 (2016)
Forget all you know about Blancmange. Forget they were a duo comprising of Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe; Luscombe has been battling illness since 2011 and had to retire from the band. Forget that...
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Beau – That Thing Reality (2016)
The debut full-length album from New York’s Beau, 2016’s That Thing Reality, finds the singer/ songwriter duo straddling the line between introspective ’60s folk and quirky, high-energy late-’70s punk....
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Into It. Over It. – Standards (2016)
Thanks to Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago, the cabin-in-the-woods album is becoming a rock ‘n’ roll cliche, overblown in its mythology and predictable in its result. Justin Vernon would probably tell...
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MMOTHS – Luneworks (2016)
Dublin producer Jack Colleran (a.k.a. MMOTHS) traveled to Los Angeles to spend some time composing and creating music on his laptop while he stayed with a friend. It was a fruitful period for the...
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Matt Corby – Telluric (2016)
“I get angry at myself for trying to impress you,” coos singer/songwriter Matt Corby three songs into Telluric, his full-length debut. Of course, like any R&B vocalist worth his salt, Corby sounds...
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Hospital Ships – The Past Is Not a Flood (2016)
Following Hospital Ships‘ most fully realized album yet, 2013’s Destruction in Yr Soul, frontman/ founder Jordan Geiger moved to Austin, Texas (sans the group’s other members) and began working on new...
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Hillsburn – In The Battle Years (2016)
The release of their first full length In The Battle Years may represent Hillsburn’s formal introduction as a band, but the ridiculously talented vocalists and multi-instrumentalists started to garner...
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Slingshot Dakota – Break (2016)
While Slingshot Dakota‘s musical formula may not have changed, the circumstances fueling the indie pop-punk duo’s material has. Prior to recording their fourth LP, Break, singer/keyboardist Carly...
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Greg Laswell – Everyone Thinks I Dodged a Bullet (2016)
While heartbreak isn’t necessarily an unexplored topic for Greg Laswell, his moody seventh LP, Everyone Thinks I Dodged a Bullet, feels particularly haunted. Solipsistically handling every task except...
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Hotel Lights – Get Your Hand in My Hand (2016)
Bandleader Darren Jessee can surely be forgiven for leaving a five-year gap between 2011’s Girl Graffiti and Get Your Hand in My Hand. After all, the span included a reunion album and world tour with...
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The KVB – Of Desire (2016)
Upon its release, Mirror Being‘s experimental synth instrumentals seemed like a fun way for the KVB to indulge their inner Blade Runner before returning to their regularly scheduled blend of darkwave...
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Jeremy Gara – Limn (2016)
Arcade Fire is a band renowned for free range explorations and the side projects of its members. Limn comes as an example of such a creative diversion from the band’s drummer Jeremy Gara. Produced and...
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Sweet John Bloom – Weird Prayer (2015)
Massachusetts is one of the few geographic signifiers that still holds real significance when describing what an indie rock band sounds like in 2015. And that’s because the Bay State breakout acts of...
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VA – Peru Boom: Bass, Bleeps & Bumps from Peru’s Electronic Underground (2015)
This bass heavy and potent collection features the key Peruvian producers and DJs that have helped build Lima’s reputation as ‘jewel in the crown’ of South America’s rave & party scenes. Tropical...
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Medictation – Warm Places (2016)
While this album by Medictation is the joyful coming together of members of Nineties UK punk heroes Leatherface and Canadians The Sainte Catherine, it sadly comes after Leatherface guitar legend Dickie...
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Underworld – Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future (2016)
Underworld’s first album in six years starts with what could arguably be described as their biggest banger since Beaucoup Fish‘s ‘Kittens’ from 1999. ‘I Exhale’ distils all that’s good and deliciously...
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