by Cassy Kolesar | Mar 5, 2022 | Album Reviews
The release of one of my favorite projects from 2021 — Kali Dreamer’s Super Jr. — seems much further away than nine flips of the calendar. It was a messy year, so messy that sometimes parts of 2020 creep into my remembrances of last year. It still doesn’t feel like...
by Cassy Kolesar | Dec 29, 2021 | Album Reviews
We’ve entered a folk-pop renaissance, and some of today’s biggest stars are leaning into it. Kacey Musgraves’ electronic space-country started to captivate people around 2018. Country music supergroup The Highwomen, which consists of Brandi Carlile,...
by Cassy Kolesar | Dec 29, 2021 | Single Reviews
In early November, Columbus lo-fi daddy Winston Hytwr released the 10-minute noise track “Poor Piss Fetische.” This release comes on the heels of Winston’s fifth LP, As Per My Last Email, which dropped in June. While he was promoting the album, he mentioned how he...
by Cassy Kolesar | Dec 5, 2021 | Album Reviews
The Smug Brothers’ second LP, Application of the Twig, under its current lineup is a continuously circulating motion of themes. The lo-fi jangle-pop band purveys this so well that even the final track, “That’s News I Could Have Used Yesterday,” seems to persist to...
by Cassy Kolesar | Nov 28, 2021 | Album Reviews
I first met singer-songwriter, producer, and sound engineer Elisa Nicolas toward the end of 2020. During our discussion, she focused on two current projects she was the most excited to be working on: Brave Hearts for Broadway—a pandemic-era idea that brought together...
