Sometimes the only way to avoid a struggle is to allow someone else to take the wheel. Amy Helm needed help in order to be set free when it came to recording her latest LP. Producing her first album herself…
Album | Amy Helm – This Too Shall Light
Author: Bob Fish
Album | Villagers – The Art of Pretending To Swim
Conor O’Brien seems to be living in two worlds. The first is the folky world of his first release in 2010 Becoming A Jackal, the second a more danceable iteration from this years release, The Art of Pretending To Swim.…
Album | The Jellyman’s Daughter – Dead Reckoning
More than just a name for their second long player, Emily Kelly and Graham Coe of The Jellyman’s Daughter know Dead Reckoning is a way of calculating one’s current position. While not the most accurate approach, it gets the job…
Album | Dawn Landes – Meet Me At The River
The career of Dawn Landes hasn’t run in a straight line. She has always gone where the spirit moved her, never making the safe choice. That would explain why she released Covers, an EP of tunes by Bruce Springsteen, Tom…
Live | Pitchfork Music Festival – Union Park, Chicago
Friday, July 20, 2018 In a light drizzle, Chicago’s own The Curls took to the stage at 1 p.m. Blending everything from the B-52s to Frank Zappa, this five-piece band didn’t even notice the weather as they played with abandon. Throwing out…
Album | Lizzie Weber – You
At the end of a very painful breakup, Lizzie Weber harnessed her emotions in a set of songs that were too painful to perform. Now, some four years later, the scars have lost much of their sting. The results found…
Album | Bob Marley & the Wailers – Kaya 40
How do you improve a masterpiece? For Stephen “Ragga” Marley the idea was simple, To improve Bob Marley’s Kaya for the 40th anniversary of its release it needed a new mix, one that captured both the vibrance and urgency of the…
Album | Flaming Lips – Greatest Hits Vol.1
The Flaming Lips have never been a band to do anything halfway. They’ve released records encased with their own blood, and for Record Store Day 2018, they pressed albums with their Dragons & Yum Yums brand of Dogfish Head Ale…
Album | LUMP – Lump
Sporting a name that was the first thing that popped Laura Marling’s goddaughter’s head, LUMP is rapidly becoming a behemoth. Pairing the Mercury prize-winning producer, founder of both Tunng and Throws, Mike Lindsay with Grammy-nominated and Brit award-winner Marling came…
Album | Father John Misty – God’s Favourite Customer
Father John Misty is having a miserable time. God’s Favourite Customer makes that much perfectly clear. Pure Comedy featured a Josh Tillman who had it all figured out. He was churning out the press for months before the disc came…