Marjorie OwensValentine’s Day is complicated. One year, it’s fine wine, a fancy hotel, and sweet loving. The next, it’s crying in your pillow. Twelve months later, it’s bitter cursing at Cupid. And then, it’s fine wine, a fancy hotel and sweet loving again. Here...
Jesse C. DiennerThis is the kind of album that is familiar the first time you hear it. And that is not to say that it is derivative of any pre-established sound, but rather chock full of diverse influences. Whether intentional or not, I can hear some Echo And The...
Vee Hua 華婷婷For The Acorn’s latest album, No Ghost, band member Howard Tsui was enlisted to create the album artwork. The chosen cover piece, entitled Spectral Residue, is thematically appropriate, and showcases Tsui’s knack to draw influence from...
Erik BurgAmbient bedroom pop pioneer Matt Mondanile, aka Ducktails, manages to break into untapped psych-pop territory on his new album, while appeasing those who long for his forgotten demo cassettes. And while Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics takes an...
Keith Canisius’ latest album, This Time It’s Our High, starts off as an annoying reminder as to just how much excellent music exists which you will probably never, ever hear about. The burden is almost crippling. At some point, though...
Karla HernandezOver the years, and with each new release, Seattle-based Say Hi seemed to lose a touch of its eccentric bedroom-pop quality. The music remained endearing, but was clearly transforming into something more “grown-up.” Luckily, the sole...
This mixtape is composed of songs released by Own Records, a small independent label based in Luxemburg (Europe). Despite the diversity of these tracks, we like to believe that you will recognize the thin red line that moves us.
This collection of instrumental offerings from Western Vinyl musicians shows just how many emotions can be captured without the utterance of a word.