“Let’s go to the fuzz tone opera” is Papal Visit’s answer to MxPx’s “Let’s go to the punk rawk show.” It’s a line buried halfway through the second side of their new album, Five Fathom Hole, but it might have stood in as the album’s overture. Five Fathom Hole is Papal Visit’s glorious ode to their medium of choice: lo-fi rock. Continue reading Papal Visit Burn Through Twenty-Five Songs in Forty-Three Minutes on ‘Five Fathom Hole’
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Hilary Ladd Releases ‘Doin’ Just Fine’ From Upcoming Narrative Concert
For many, motherhood is a time of learning and empowerment. It’s no different for Hilary Ladd, who’s used this time to find the strength to draw boundaries after a long time of bending backwards to please people. Continue reading Hilary Ladd Releases ‘Doin’ Just Fine’ From Upcoming Narrative Concert
Senior Citizen & Tim Walker Continue to Push into Unfamiliar Territory With ‘The Foreign’
In an attempt to keep from losing their minds during the long dark night of 2020, Bob Deveau and Tim Walker chose to get a little weird or, perhaps, weirder. Bless their little hearts. Deveau, best known as the powerhouse drummer for The Olympic Symphonium, Grand Theft Bus, and Force Fields, has been working in his off hours on his own solo electronic music production as Senior Citizen, for which he seems to recruited fellow Grand Theft Bus bandmate, Tim Walker, and pushed well into unexplored territory. Continue reading Senior Citizen & Tim Walker Continue to Push into Unfamiliar Territory With ‘The Foreign’
Mark Kleyn Spirals Into Enthralling Viola Loops on ‘Foot Hold’
One of the most pressing issues of truly solo work is the dangers of tunnel vision. When a single person helms every aspect of a recording, from performance to production to presentation, it runs the risk of being born of an echo chamber. But there are times when an enigmatic, bewitching chamber of echoes is as captivating as it gets. Mark Kleyn, one half of acclaimed string duo Pallmer, effortlessly shows just how impressively he wears every hat on his new release Foot Hold. Continue reading Mark Kleyn Spirals Into Enthralling Viola Loops on ‘Foot Hold’
DenMother’s ‘Frantic Ram’ is a Beautiful and Haunting Journey
There’s something intensely terrifying and equally tantalizing about exploring the dark side of anything, be it ourselves, others, or something else entirely. Without them, we would never come to relish in our highest highs, after all.
The quarantine gave us plenty of time to explore whatever intangibles we wished, but electronica artist Sabarah Pilon, the mastermind behind experimental electronic project DenMother, took it nine steps further with her latest concept album, Frantic Ram.
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