Mar 8, 2020 Music Chasms Return with Limits EP, Tour with Telefon Tel Aviv (Review) There’s a hint of darkness beneath the dreaminess that makes Chasms’ music all the more captivating.
Feb 16, 2020 Music Cave Vaults on the Moon in New Mexico by Tan Cologne (Review) This is music for ambling through wide open spaces that aren’t encumbered by the detritus of urban sprawl.
May 14, 2019 Music The Mirage by Chasms (Review) With its blend of dub music and dream-pop, Chasms’ latest album is shadowy and seductive.
Mar 3, 2018 Music DigHayZoose’s Ambitious MagentaMantaLoveTree Combined Funk, Metal & Psychedelia With Strange Results (Review) MagentaMantaLoveTree is a sprawling, uneven album that’s by turns fascinating and frustrating, impassioned and inconsistent.
Mar 31, 2016 Music Oh! by The Big Eyes Family Players (Review) A chilled, challenging psychedelic album that will reward the patient listener.
Sep 3, 2012 Music Soft Wounds by Songs of Green Pheasant (Review) Duncan Sumpner’s first album in five years proves just as beguiling as his earlier releases.
Jun 25, 2012 Music Brother Sun, Sister Moon by Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Review) It’s difficult for me to listen to these songs and not imagine that I’m listening to music culled, in some fashion, directly from the duo’s long-lost childhood memories.
Nov 20, 2009 Music The Length of the Rail by The Balky Mule (Review) The Length of the Rail is a beguiling listening experience that rewards repeat listens.
Dec 28, 2006 Music Aerial Days by Songs of Green Pheasant (Review) Aerial Days is full of tiny shimmering moments of beauty.
Oct 29, 2006 Music Songs of Green Pheasant by Songs of Green Pheasant (Review) The album’s awkward-yet-earned shortcomings, much like its audio imperfections, only make it more affecting.
Aug 7, 2004 Music The Wheel Works by The Wheel Works (Review) It has the operatic rock quality of The Who or Pink Floyd with the sensibility to rock à la Radiohead.
May 3, 2004 Music Start a People by Black Moth Super Rainbow (Review) Blissful-yet-bittersweet psychedelic music that is bound to conjure up some childhood memories.
Feb 1, 2004 Music Another One Lost by Lake Trout (Review) Though not without its flaws, the album has plenty that impresses with breathless creativity and beauty.
Aug 28, 2003 Music Live in NYC by Canyon (Review) They sound a lot like a really heavy rock band that is taking their liberty to stretch out their arrangements.
Apr 20, 2003 Music Rolled Gold by The Action (Review) This CD is actually a collection of demos that The Action were shopping to labels in the zeitgeist of 1967.
Jan 19, 2003 Music Suntan by Suntan (Review) Considering the spacious, trippy sounds that Suntan have taken a liking to, there’s not a lot of experimentation going on here.
Dec 3, 2002 Music Limited Sight Distance EP by Stefanie Fix (Review) The impression I leave with is that Limited Sight Distance is still trying to find their sound.