One of the most incredible things about art is how it challenges us to think in different ways. tUnE-yArDs’ Merrill Garbus accepts this challenge to the extreme on her fourth LP, I can feel you creep into my private life: […]
One of the most incredible things about art is how it challenges us to think in different ways. tUnE-yArDs’ Merrill Garbus accepts this challenge to the extreme on her fourth LP, I can feel you creep into my private life: […]
With Sleep Well Beast, The National distinguishes itself from other acts mining the dream pop, post rock, and Americana/folk lineages — Sufjan Stevens, From Indian Lakes, Arcade Fire, War on Drugs, and Fleet Foxes, among others — a leap comparable, […]
John Darnielle has been sketching out a stubborn, frenetic career arc for seventeen years now, and he’s been successful enough that the top result on a Google search for “mountain goats” gives you him (instead of, you know, mountain goats). […]
These days, most neo-folkies have novel preoccupations. They’re fascinated by children (Devendra Banhart) or American history (Sufjan Stevens) or fairy tales (Joanna Newsom) but rarely by the quotidian stuff of life, which means it’s either a bad time to be […]
The three principal players in the British band Mojave 3 were once an outfit called Slowdive, issuing several well-received discs during the last throes of the shoegazing movement in the early ’90s. With shoegazer pop becoming a distant and — […]
Neil Halstead’s debut solo album is a hushed, gorgeous affair with the ghost of Nick Drake drifting through its nine songs, and the tensile influences of Neil Young and Bert Jansch in their reflective folk guises poking through. The former […]
Usually the business of making music is as tedious as trade talk anywhere. Mostly it boils down to this: The bigger the label, the more money can be spent recording and promoting the music, and the faster you can get […]
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