by Sean Passmore | Dec 22, 2016 | Album of the Week
An improvised album of acoustic psychedelia these five instrumental raga jams were captured live off the floor in the studio by Chicago natives Charles Rumback and twenty-something Ryley Walker. Recorded in two short sessions each a month apart with Walker on guitar...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 21, 2016 | Album of the Week
29 year old Regina, Saskatchewan native Andy Shauf doesn’t work or play well with the other children and that is precisely why after having received a grant to record this album in Germany with a group of fellow musicians Shauf packed it in, headed back to...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 20, 2016 | Album of the Week
At 47 years of age Black Mountain front man Stephen McBean is a grizzled veteran of the wild Canadian music frontier. Forming his first band at the age of 12, Victoria’s punk rock outfit Jerk Ward, McBean has tried his hand at various incarnations in the ensuing...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 19, 2016 | Album of the Week
Taking the name from an episode of ’90’s TV show Northern Exposure in which a group of Alaskan citizens celebrate the first snowfall of winter by wishing one another bon hiver, a French phrase meaning “good winter”, Wisconsin native Justin...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 18, 2016 | Album of the Week
Not bad for a band with 30 plus years behind them who once sounded like the future but now sound simply like themselves. Just their second album in half a decade, ninth overall in a recording career spanning 25 odd years, Moon Shaped Pool maps very familiar ground...
