When listening to The Stanfields’ new live album, Welcome to the Ball, I’m transported back to a time that feels like a distant memory. If I close my eyes, I can visualize a packed, sweaty dive bar full of drunken strangers speaking moistly. The floor is sticky. Continue reading The Stanfields Remind Us What Live Shows Felt Like on ‘Welcome to the Ball’
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Keeper E. Shows Us That Falling in Love Isn’t as Simple as It Seems on ‘Please Don’t Tell Me’
Keeper E. knows falling in love can feel strange; a warmth, a sense of safety, a euphoric excitement from spending time with a special person. When you’re apart, however, you can find yourself pining for your lover and the daydreaming can distract from your normal routine. Continue reading Keeper E. Shows Us That Falling in Love Isn’t as Simple as It Seems on ‘Please Don’t Tell Me’
Hemineglect Still Searching for Their Sound on ‘Is Obsolete’
Hemispatial neglect, or hemineglect, is a neurological condition resulting in the brain being unable to perceive objects on one side of a person’s body. Hemineglect is also a Halifax-based alt-rock band that just released Is Obsolete, their follow-up EP to last year’s debut album. Continue reading Hemineglect Still Searching for Their Sound on ‘Is Obsolete’
Robbie Tucker Crafts One of the Strangest Christmas Records You’ll Ever Hear With ‘Peppermints’
From the moment we hit play on Robbie Tucker’s Peppermints, his self-proclaimed “first and only Christmas album,” Tucker runs wild with descriptive lyrics and deft storytelling, amounting to one of the strangest Christmas records you’ll ever hear. Peppermints sounds like a cast recording for a non-existent Christmas production just waiting to be created. Continue reading Robbie Tucker Crafts One of the Strangest Christmas Records You’ll Ever Hear With ‘Peppermints’
TV Wife Soundtracks Everybody’s Self-Isolation on ‘Indoor Kids’
TV Wife describes the recording of their debut EP as being “like one of those friendships that you tried really hard to foster until finally, some months later, you look back and think, ‘What the hell did I even see in that person?'” After hearing the wacky weirdness of Indoor Kids, one gets a sense of what they mean by this. Continue reading TV Wife Soundtracks Everybody’s Self-Isolation on ‘Indoor Kids’