8.0
Alt Reviews

Bouquet and MAUGER Reviewed

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…
8.0
Alt Reviews

Alex MacNeil and Canada Hill Reviewed

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…
7.8
Alt Reviews

40 Lashes and Sipul Reviewed

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…
8.5
Alt Reviews

The Rumba Madre and love labor Reviewed

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…
8.0
Alt Reviews

Abstract Crimewave and Josh Phillips Reviewed

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…
8.0
Alt Reviews

Mushroom Pudding and Los Potholes Reviewed

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…
7.8
Alt Reviews

Socially Suspect and Stuart Fork Reviewed

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…
7.8
Alt Reviews

Bison Bone and eggcorn Reviewed

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…