7.8
HÜGGE and Membership Reviewed
March 31, 2025
HÜGGE – True Love
HÜGGE sounds like Kings of Leon do after a few too many pints of hometown moonshine. Sadly, those are recordings that we’ll never hear on account of the American band being too cheap to splurge on an engineer to track their barn rehearsals. But…
Royal Blush and paperface Reviewed
March 24, 2025
Royal Blush – Butterflies on the Grave
Yes, you’re right! Your powers of perception are very strong, and, indeed, there is a large market for breakup songs. But it’s always been this way. And, arguably, there are no other types of events that deserve the…
Crossing i’s Dotting t’s and Eric Sleeper Reviewed
February 1, 2025
Crossing i’s Dotting t’s – You, in everything
Bob Dylan said that you can’t be wise and in love at the same time. Think about that the next time that you’re made to study a romantic poet in school or when a movie about their life gets made.
The artists…
I See Ghøsts and STOKE Reviewed
December 13, 2024
I See Ghøsts – Down Here
At the end of the day, humanity’s great thinkers only had two topics that they deemed worthy of discussing – success and failure. Yes, that may sound like a pretty humorless kind of work schedule, and it may be the reason why so few…
Wexford and Rudy Nuño Reviewed
August 15, 2024
Wexford – Moving On
There are some bands whose songs make it very difficult for anyone to open up and follow them in a live context. Just as well adding to a playlist for your personal enjoyment is just as difficult.
These bands are the ones that write about…
Three of Swords and The Underbites Reviewed
July 5, 2024
Three of Swords – The Best of Me
The careers of most musicians follow a similar arc. It may make you sad or may leave you indifferent. That won’t change anything.
The fact is that, regardless of how much success a band or musician reaches at the peak of…
Good Terms - Wither Away (Review)
September 9, 2020
Most teenage bands aren’t that good, and the original enthusiasm that is integral to getting people to play together, dissipates rather quickly.
I predict this is not something that will easily happen in the case of Good Terms, an excited, polite emo-punk band from…