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Bouquet and MAUGER Reviewed
May 4, 2025
Bouquet – Moon Was Made
What’s life without a bit of structure? A terrible mess, or a rockstar’s dream. Frankly, the latter is too much of a fantasy for the majority of us. Thus, we choose the former, and we make plans, take notes and organise our…
Alex MacNeil and Canada Hill Reviewed
May 4, 2025
Alex MacNeil – Pasteis De Nata
You’ll only get to remember a handful of things. Unless you take a photo of every single event in your life, it can never be any other way. And the things that, years from now, you will be able to recall will blend the sublime with…
40 Lashes and Sipul Reviewed
May 4, 2025
40 Lashes – Cheer On
I’m afraid that most societies were built on discipline, brute strength and herd mentality. How else could you have convinced so many people to stay together for so long? Societies, even successful ones, aren’t the place for tall…
The Rumba Madre and love labor Reviewed
May 4, 2025
The Rumba Madre – Abuela
There’s a natural instinct to assume that the best and most successful music of the past century was made in the U.S. and the U.K. by pop-rock bands. All of the other hits played at a higher or slower tempo, everything that included very…
Abstract Crimewave x Lykke Li – The Gambler
Style will get you plenty of places. There are folks everywhere crying out for a bit of it, standing in line to take pictures, getting their pens ready for an autograph for a star who can convince that the world is…
Mushroom Pudding and Los Potholes Reviewed
May 4, 2025
Mushroom Pudding – Candle
I used to take great comfort in the fact that rock musicians were nothing like regular people. They didn’t wear the same clothes as all of us. They didn’t speak in the same way or have the same dull activities. And because of all of…
Socially Suspect and Stuart Fork Reviewed
May 4, 2025
Socially Suspect – P.S.
What would you be doing in a perfect world? If you’d just continue with some of the same activities that you’re involved with now, while simply eliminating the financial implications, you might have already chosen the right route for…
Bison Bone and eggcorn Reviewed
May 4, 2025
Bison Bone – The Lucky Ones
Great songwriters are, generally, people who both are unlikely to encounter terrible misfortunes and are blessed to thrive despite them. There are some, sure, who live in the Hollywood Hills and haven’t stopped smiling since they…
The music industry is just as much of an illusion as the global financial system. Get enough people to believe in it, and it works. Make enough people reject it, and it falls apart. How else would you explain the rise of punk and alternative music out of the modest confines…