Airy, simple, ambient It is hard to describe this album as dark and dreery, because while Marissa's sound is ghost like and spacious, it leaves you with a certain amount of consolation. With airy vocals spread generously over a soft guitar and occasional faint...
Yin and yang of a soft female voice and electronic beats From the first sound of Priscilla Ahn's voice, you think this is going to be another mildly charming indie acoustic female song writer type noise. The polished sweetness of Priscilla's voice demands...
Be proud to like this “indie” band Brooklyn quintet Snowmine has found indie-pop perfection with their sophomore album Dialects. Subtle yet effective use of fluttering flutes and pianos can be traced throughout the album most notably on it's opener “To Hold an...
Emotionally-charged, genre-blending mellow indie rock With shades of their Southern roots and a specific brand of melancholy, Mississippi-based band Water Liars' new self-titled album has huge ambition, and rightfully so. The album is full of contrasts, going...
Quirky and creative indie pop that is always at a high point PT Walkley's newest album, Shoulders is the epitome of perfect indie pop. From the album opener “LeechesÛ, with the cutesy and creative line “I'd rather let leeches treat me like a milkshake than...
Relaxing and ambitious experimental noise rock with a hint of indie New Madrid's newest album packs a lot of sound into just seven songs. The first half of the album features several rolling, low-fi indie tunes that manage to be catchy and fuse in noise rock...
60’s psych, again Holy Wave are not trying to hide their influences here. If I wanted to, I could just skip the review and list off 60's rock bands for a whole paragraph, and honestly it would be a better descriptor of what they sound like than what I'm...
Garage reissue falls flat The description of this record on Burger Records website tells me that this is a long lost gem from the 2003-2004 noise rock scene. Cool and exciting as this may sound, The Traps, for all their noise and heaviness and loud guitars, are...
Selfie-advocate AND talented Burial's material is so scarcely released that, at this point, every EP, every single, every selfie, is followed with a firestorm of coverage from every corner of the electronic' music community, and rightfully so. His string of...
Baltimore group steps up their game I've always known Sun Club to be messy, totally unorganized, and entirely unreliable live. Sometime in the past few months, however, these Capital Punishment alum's have really stepped up their game, releasing an EP with...