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

Drekka / Seamus O’Muineachain ~ Ghost House / Blood Apple

Happy Halloween!  Today’s EPs offer different aural images of the occasion, one set haunted and the other one benign.  Whether trick-or-treating, entertaining, partying, dressing up or any combination of the above, we hope you’ll enjoy this unofficial holiday pairing! Drekka‘s Ghost House is

Drekka / Seamus O’Muineachain ~ Ghost House / Blood Apple

Happy Halloween!  Today’s EPs offer different aural images of the occasion, one set haunted and the other one benign.  Whether trick-or-treating, entertaining, partying, dressing up or any combination of the above, we hope you’ll enjoy this unofficial holiday pairing! Drekka‘s Ghost House is

We Stood Like Kings ~ USSR 1926

We Stood Like Kings steps one year deeper into the past with its latest release, the follow-up to Berlin 1927.  Like that release, the LP is a new score to an old film, this one being Dziga Vertov’s Russian classic A Sixth Part

We Stood Like Kings ~ USSR 1926

We Stood Like Kings steps one year deeper into the past with its latest release, the follow-up to Berlin 1927.  Like that release, the LP is a new score to an old film, this one being Dziga Vertov’s Russian classic A Sixth Part

Mono & The Ocean ~ Transcendent

Mono & The Ocean‘s split 12″ follows the template of the recently reviewed All We Expected/Raum Kingdom split LP.  Mono’s side is instrumental, The Ocean’s has vocals, and yet both are complimentary.  One might say that the groundwork was laid

Mono & The Ocean ~ Transcendent

Mono & The Ocean‘s split 12″ follows the template of the recently reviewed All We Expected/Raum Kingdom split LP.  Mono’s side is instrumental, The Ocean’s has vocals, and yet both are complimentary.  One might say that the groundwork was laid

Esmerine ~ Lost Voices

It’s just not fair.  Montreal’s Esmerine was already one of the world’s best instrumental rock bands, with roots stretching back to GY!BE and Thee Silver Mt. Zion.  But now the band has added members and guest stars, including touring member Jérémi Roy

Esmerine ~ Lost Voices

It’s just not fair.  Montreal’s Esmerine was already one of the world’s best instrumental rock bands, with roots stretching back to GY!BE and Thee Silver Mt. Zion.  But now the band has added members and guest stars, including touring member Jérémi Roy

Justin Small ~ Summer

When last we checked in with Do Make Say Think’s Justin Small, his subscription series had just begun.  At that point, we’d had the chance to preview four tracks; now we’re up to nineteen.  It’s safe to say that the experiment

Justin Small ~ Summer

When last we checked in with Do Make Say Think’s Justin Small, his subscription series had just begun.  At that point, we’d had the chance to preview four tracks; now we’re up to nineteen.  It’s safe to say that the experiment

Radare ~ Im Argen

Im Argen is a nighttime album; it just doesn’t fit during the day.  Slow, smoky, introspective and lean, this is the sound of dark jazz clubs, stolen glances and dropped cigarettes, burning themselves out in the shadowed streets.  And yet, look at that

Radare ~ Im Argen

Im Argen is a nighttime album; it just doesn’t fit during the day.  Slow, smoky, introspective and lean, this is the sound of dark jazz clubs, stolen glances and dropped cigarettes, burning themselves out in the shadowed streets.  And yet, look at that

Waking Aida ~ Full Heal

Waking Aida‘s Eschaton was one of our favorite post-rock albums of last year, as well as a member of our Happiest Music Chart.  The band’s second effort, Full Heal, is just as accomplished, albeit a bit more serious-minded. The thing we appreciate most

Waking Aida ~ Full Heal

Waking Aida‘s Eschaton was one of our favorite post-rock albums of last year, as well as a member of our Happiest Music Chart.  The band’s second effort, Full Heal, is just as accomplished, albeit a bit more serious-minded. The thing we appreciate most

Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra ~ S/T

Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra is a band from Lebanon that was born from the coming together of a free improv collective and a punk group, the result being a merger not so much of styles but of humors. The irreverence

Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra ~ S/T

Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra is a band from Lebanon that was born from the coming together of a free improv collective and a punk group, the result being a merger not so much of styles but of humors. The irreverence