High Road Touring

[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 ...

[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 ...

[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 ...

[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 ...

[Rolling Stone] One of America’s greatest living songwriters previews his first album in four years with the release of the title track, inspired by his father, Lonesome Dove author Larry McMurtry By David Browne Talking about his forthcoming album, his first in four years, James McMurtry is as no-nonsense as his songs. “It happened like all my records happened,” he ...