Category Archives: Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz

Hugar ~ Varða

Icelandic duo (with friends) Hugar makes a huge step forward with its sophomore album, from self-released to Sony Masterworks.  Not that their debut album was modest ~ it included Ólafur Arnalds on drums, along with brass and a string section.  The new

Hugar ~ Varða

Icelandic duo (with friends) Hugar makes a huge step forward with its sophomore album, from self-released to Sony Masterworks.  Not that their debut album was modest ~ it included Ólafur Arnalds on drums, along with brass and a string section.  The new

Pillars ~ Cavum

Can a post-rock band be both massive AND melodic? Absolutely.  This is the arena of Indianapolis (Indiana) quartet Pillars, who live so close to October’s POST! festival that they can sleep in their own beds. “Dissolution” was the album’s lead single,

Pillars ~ Cavum

Can a post-rock band be both massive AND melodic? Absolutely.  This is the arena of Indianapolis (Indiana) quartet Pillars, who live so close to October’s POST! festival that they can sleep in their own beds. “Dissolution” was the album’s lead single,

Hey Post-Rock Fans, Would You Like 4 Hours of Music for Free?

34 tracks, 4 hours of free music, new and unreleased ~ music we’ve reviewed, music we haven’t and bands we had never heard of before today.  Open Language Volume IIII is the eighth double compilation from Montana’s A Thousand Arms.  In all,

Hey Post-Rock Fans, Would You Like 4 Hours of Music for Free?

34 tracks, 4 hours of free music, new and unreleased ~ music we’ve reviewed, music we haven’t and bands we had never heard of before today.  Open Language Volume IIII is the eighth double compilation from Montana’s A Thousand Arms.  In all,

*Press A* ~ Far Cry: New Dawn, Can Androids Pray, Katana ZERO (Remixes)

Tyler Bates & John Swihart ~ Far Cry: New Dawn Unlike the constantly pounding and dramatic tracks of Far Cry 5, the music in New Dawn is much more atmospheric, emphasizing not the very weight of beliefs in a world’s

*Press A* ~ Far Cry: New Dawn, Can Androids Pray, Katana ZERO (Remixes)

Tyler Bates & John Swihart ~ Far Cry: New Dawn Unlike the constantly pounding and dramatic tracks of Far Cry 5, the music in New Dawn is much more atmospheric, emphasizing not the very weight of beliefs in a world’s

Russian Circles ~ Blood Year

Chicago trio Russian Circles is taking its time, and it shows.  Blood Year is precise where it needs to be and unhinged when necessary.  The album floats from an ambient beginning to a pummeling ending. Once the drums of “Arluck” arrive, fans will

Russian Circles ~ Blood Year

Chicago trio Russian Circles is taking its time, and it shows.  Blood Year is precise where it needs to be and unhinged when necessary.  The album floats from an ambient beginning to a pummeling ending. Once the drums of “Arluck” arrive, fans will

Heron ~ Sun Release

Sun Release is a perfect summer album, sonically, visually and thematically.  Over the past four months, while we’ve waited for the season to begin, we’ve been warmed by a trio of singles, each stamped by the same bright orange orb.  Now

Heron ~ Sun Release

Sun Release is a perfect summer album, sonically, visually and thematically.  Over the past four months, while we’ve waited for the season to begin, we’ve been warmed by a trio of singles, each stamped by the same bright orange orb.  Now

*Press A* ~ Outer Wilds; Sigma Theory: Global Cold War

Andrew Prahlow ~ Outer Wilds Soundtracking a game about space adventure and the end of the universe, Outer Wilds takes us on a journey that oscillates between the gently sublime and the faintly terrifying. These shifts occur both across the

*Press A* ~ Outer Wilds; Sigma Theory: Global Cold War

Andrew Prahlow ~ Outer Wilds Soundtracking a game about space adventure and the end of the universe, Outer Wilds takes us on a journey that oscillates between the gently sublime and the faintly terrifying. These shifts occur both across the

Jambinai ~ ONDA

When a post-rock band plays the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics, it’s fair to say that the genre has legs; but in order for a genre to have legs, it must prove itself worthy of reinvention.  This is exactly

Jambinai ~ ONDA

When a post-rock band plays the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics, it’s fair to say that the genre has legs; but in order for a genre to have legs, it must prove itself worthy of reinvention.  This is exactly