Take Care, Take Care, Take Care is standard Explosions in the Sky fare: thoughtful, aurally and melodically indulgent, it’s an exuberant pleasure. Opening track ‘Last Known Surroundings’, typically loud, sweeps through epic guitar arrangements and definitely signals that the band…
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Album: Admiral Fallow – Boots Met My Face
From time to time an album comes along that you know you will fall in love with even before the first song has come to an end – Boots Met My Face, the debut from Glaswegian quintet, Admiral Fallow is,…
Album: Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
Apocalypse is Callahan’s third studio offering since dropping the Smog moniker, and it is in many ways familiar territory: full of lessons learned the hard way, animals and the land, wry self-scathing philosophy, and everywhere the value of endurance. Musically…
Album: Sarabeth Tucek – Get Well Soon
Before we start I should point out that I don’t think of myself as the kind of person who is prone to hyperbole. In fact I’m probably the least likely person in the history of…like…ever to exaggerate. That being said,…
Album: All Eternals Deck – The Mountain Goats
The Mountains Goats are nearly always my favourite band. And John Darnielle is my favourite ever songwriter bar none. He’s an intensely likable, principled, genius of a frontman. Yet the last few albums – though solidly good – haven’t blown…
Album: Dark Dark Dark – Wild Go
There’s more than just a buzz around Dark Dark Dark and their second album, Wild Go. There’s a hive of adoration in some quarters. Why though? That’s not the easiest question to answer. There’s a definite beauty to Wild Go…
Album: Singing Adams – Everybody Friends Now
Students of lyrics will find plenty to keep them happy on Everybody Friends Now by Singing Adams, the current guise of former Broken Family Band frontman Steven Adams. Musicians, however, may struggle a little more. There are enjoyable little nuggets…
Second thoughts on Timber Timbre’s Creep on Creepin’ On
A little over a week ago, Joe Skrebels reviewed Timber Timbre’s Creep on Creepin’ On right here, but he’s already had a change of heart. As he explained on his blog Music From A Green Window, it’s just plain better…
EP: Marcus Foster – Tumble Down
There was a part of us that almost wondered if this day would ever come. To say the wait for Marcus Foster’s debut EP has been long barely begins to describe it. He’s been on the circuit for years now,…
Album: The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow
Some voices were meant to go together. And it will only take a few moments of Barton Hollow opener 20 Years for the uninitiated to realise that John Paul White and Joy Williams were born to sing together. Like the…