by Cameron Carr | May 8, 2022 | Album Reviews
I’m told Sadurn is new, a band formed from a solo project just before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s impossible I could have heard them. That’s difficult to believe though. The Philadelphia group sounds so unmistakably familiar. And it’s not the songs....
by Cameron Carr | May 5, 2022 | Album Reviews
Sharon Van Etten bills her sixth full-length album as somewhat of a pivotal artistic step, giving little idea of what fans can expect. For We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong, she elected to release no singles in advance of the album with the explanation that the...
by Cameron Carr | Feb 5, 2022 | Album Reviews
Gone from Mitski’s sixth full-length album is much of the mystery and ominous double meanings that have distinguished her career. The through line to Laurel Hell is Mitski’s omnivorous musicality. The album proves her pop potential and, in contrast to her earlier...
by Cameron Carr | Nov 21, 2021 | Album Reviews
The newest Beach Fossils’ album is an oddity. For starters, it’s not really new at all; these are alternate versions of some of the band’s most loved songs, reimagined here as jazzy piano ballads for a post-show cocktail lounge. The idea: rearrange the simplistic...
by Cameron Carr | Oct 5, 2021 | Album Reviews
In less than six months, Ducks Ltd. followed their debut, the seven-track Get Bleak, with full-length Modern Fiction. The back-to-back releases show a clear and promising development while also alluding to the abundance of music that seems ever-present in the...
