St. Rangers "Witness Marks" EP Review
St. Rangers makes room for grief yet fills that space with grace, creating music that doesn’t cling to the past but quietly gives thanks before moving forward.
Read Moreroom3 "Bill's Garden" Album Review
room3 has been honing their set for more than two years, all over the twin cities scene, and it shows. Their passion for celebrating the creative spirit of jazz fusion through their own personal concoction of sugar, spice, and everything nice is in full bloom on this record.
Read MoreASMR U Kidding Me?! astrid hubbard flynn and aros e-v "all aflutter/soft gnaw" Album Review
With just some “simple” electronics, a plethora of household items, and sparse vocals, the two-track album presents a sprawling palette of sounds that explore the vast spectrum of nothing all the way over to delicate. With a healthy dose of industrial interruption to help mimic life in the modern world, of course.
Read MoreSleeping Jesus "Shotgun" Album Review
Sleeping Jesus’s third album, and first self produced record, Shotgun, is out now. Following 2022’s Leave the Party Early, and 2023’s Hollywood Smile,Shotgun extends Sleeping Jesus’s signature sound into 2025.
Read MoreKaitlin Cassady "North Star" Album Review
With North Star, Kaitlin Cassady avoids the sophomore slump entirely. It’s a record unafraid of vulnerability, of beauty, of speaking plainly about things most people keep buried. By weaving her own experiences into melodies that feel both personal and universal, Cassady invites listeners not just to hear her songs but to find themselves inside them.
Read MoreEudaemon "Spiritual Anguish" Album Review
The album as a whole is expansive; even on multiple listens I was surprised at how it continues to unfold. It’s a testament to Eudaemon’s songwriting, apparently a band effort, which plays like an homage to memories of bygone rec center basements, Pure Volume profiles, and the Warped Tour side stages in the good good years. Whoever you just thought of, Spiritual Anguish has a riff for you.
Read MoreBirth Order "Albatross" Album Review
It is a neat trick when a band on the heavier side of the spectrum can move through multiple moods across the span of a single song without ever losing the plot. Much to my elation, on their new album Albatross, Minneapolis based Birth Order regularly perform this feat with abundant ease.
Read MoreRicardo Papaya Wants You to Listen to The Symptones New EP
Do not and I repeat DO NOT sleep on The Symptones. I have been hearing their name around town but came into this listen pretty blank slated. I like to do that from time to time so I am either pleasantly surprised or on the rare occasion bewildered by what the fuck I just listened to.
Read MorePoison Ivy And The People Divulge Existential Confessions on Robot Ghost EP
Robot Ghost rejects tidy conclusions. The EP flickers with hope but refuses to extinguish discomfort; listeners move alongside the protagonist, drifting from dissociation and exhaustion to flashes of hope and rebellion. Each song becomes a new confession, a small act of resistance against self-destruction and collective despair.
Read Moreriver sinclaire "four friends say nothing" Album Review
From the outset, “four friends say nothing” presents an identifiable and replicable sound, melding influences of modern psychedelic with titans of (what is now considered) classic rock. This cohesiveness is partly due to river sinclaire’s reverb-heavy production and scratchy distortion, but there is also a confidence to their songwriting exemplified by their relative minimalism.
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