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Fort Lean: Fort Lean EP
Your enjoyment of Fort Lean’s self-titled debut EP may be related to how curious you are about what a cheerful Walkmen might sound like. With dreamy washed-out guitars cozying up next to crooning vocals
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Ty Segall: Singles: 2007-2010
Since his 2008 debut Horn The Unicorn, Ty Segall and his raucous backing band have slowly been making a name for themselves, evolving their sound ever so slightly with each new release. Over a
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Treefight for Sunlight: A Collection of Vibrations for Your Skull
Treefight for Sunlight’s debut album A Collection of Vibrations for Your Skull (eponymously titled in the U.K.) is gifted and promising but conflicted. Populated by unique psych jewels and flat ordeals, it’s sublime in
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Los Campesinos!: Hello Sadness
Hello Sadness is already being described as a “breakup album,” a term that brings to mind decades of beautiful tradition from Bob Dylan to Beck and, at its worst, songs of overwrought emotion and
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The Smiths: The Smiths Complete
“Reissue! Repackage! Repackage!/ Reevaluate the songs!/ Double-pack with a photograph/ Extra track and a tacky badge.” Ah, but let’s not be too hard on Morrissey. No doubt when he penned these lyrics all the
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Real Estate: Days
I despise the beach. I hate the sensation of scalding sand between my toes. I dislike the salty, seaweed-inflected odor that stays with me for days after leaving the sandy shore. Exposure to unadulterated
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Youth Lagoon: The Year of Hibernation
Trevor Powers, aka Youth Lagoon, is a young multi-instrumentalist who retreated into solitude to record an album on themes of youth, nostalgia and heartache. A brief description such as this would not lead one
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Revisit: The Beta Band: The Three EPs
Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. John Cusack tricked those poor bastards in that “I will now sell five copies of The Three EPs by
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Megafaun: Megafaun
A good number of modern indie bands, pumping out what could most loosely be described as experimental folk, hone in on a unique trademark style on their debut that garners all kinds of critical
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