How Lucius Came Home
[Paste Magazine] Q&A: Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig talk with Paste about re-recording their 2014 masterpiece Wildewoman, finding each other again after making Second Nature, working with Adam Granduciel and Madison Cunningham, and their eponymous new album. By Matt Mitchell Maybe you’ve heard Lucius harmonizing the titular chorus in Harry Styles’ “Treat People With Kindness,” or tweaking their singing into celestial patches in ...
Review: William Tyler Time Indefinite
[Pitchfork] By Daniel Felsenthal 8.0 The Nashville guitarist’s latest album is an act of reckoning: Collaging together found sounds and field recordings with his own fingerpicking, it feels like an elegy for a nation in free fall. American instrumental guitarists often conjure sprawling frontiers, but those visions can confine them. William Tyler, among the tradition’s preeminent 21st ...
Review: Model/Actriz Pirouette
[FLOOD Magazine] The NYC-based project’s second album delights in its confident sense of chaos, with vocalist Cole Haden knowing full well there’s no way we’re going to avert our gaze for a single moment. Words: Matty Pywell Model/ActrizPirouetteTRUE PANTHERABOVE THE CURRENT Model/Actriz aren’t the type of band who are going to make you feel comfortable. The New ...
Review: Sunflower Bean, Mortal Primetime
[FLOOD Magazine] The New York trio’s first self-produced album has a smooth, consistent, quietly confident sound quality that reflects the elegance that’s always been at their core. By Kurt Orzeck Sunflower BeanMortal PrimetimeLUCKY NUMBER Has the shoegaze craze got you down? Try Sunflower Bean on for size. With a soft and fuzzy post-stoner-rock sound that can’t be ...
Beth Gibbons: KCRW Live from Apogee Studio
[KCRW] Written by Marion Hodges Beth Gibbons’ sonic accomplishments alongside Geoff Barrow, Adrian Utley, and Andy Smith with their band Portishead established her as a defining voice among her 1990s cohort of alt-rock landscape-shifters. Classics like “Sour Times,” “Glory Box,” and “Only You” are equal parts sultry and scary; bracingly fresh electro-noir singles ready to ...