Fat White Family Champagne Holocaust Trashmouth RecordsMy first listen of Fat White Family’s debut, Champagne Holocaust, left me thinking of notorious criminal Charles Manson. No sense emerged...
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Stuart AisbittThe Lawsuits hail from Doylestown Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It is home to the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, and affords one the chance to pursue interests in farms, vineyards and tree farms. It is a place with a heritage very much of the earth...
Verdugo Hills is somewhat renowned for its high school — in which numerous Hollywood movies have been filmed — and a hospital revered for its ties to the community. Verdugo Hills is also the title of Caroline’s new album, a...
Blood Sea Dream is Grand Lake’s full-length debut. Eschewing any usual monikers, the Oakland quartet consider their music “fuckwave,” a tag which questions their attachment to categorization. This encapsulates the spirit of an...
Dan Sartain begins Dan Sartain Lives, his sixth album, with paranoia and his life under threat in “Those Thoughts”; “I don”t wanna know who”s at my door…/ I don”t wanna hear your gunshots,” he sings...
If Destroyer Of The Void, Blitzen Trapper’s fifth full-length album, is your first encounter with them, you will likely be intrigued by their uncanny homage to musical tradition and their inflection of strangeness within the seemingly familiar...
Upon first listening to Worried About The Fire, you might — like the music itself — be wordless. “Disquieting,” “disconcerting,” and “disturbing” are just some suggestions with which to describe the...
“I’m ready/ I’m ready for anything you give me,” sings Ortolan’s Stephanie Cottingham on “Anything.” The lyrics of the opening track of Ortolan’s full-length debut, Time On A String, echo the...