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Youngblood Brass Band Reviewed
Youngblood Brass Band Is That A Riot? (Layered) At first listen, Is That A Riot? comes off as an opportunistic crotching of Rage Against The Machine’s gig. But then you realize Rage were never badass enough to incorporate horns.
Aspen It Is Reviewed
Aspen It Is Release Me From The Weights Of Gravity (Piermont) Chubby-faced, peach-fuzzed emo turns from hopeful to overbearing on Release Me From The Weights Of Gravity.
Barton Carroll Reviewed
Barton Carroll Love & War (Skybucket) Crooked Fingers accomplice Barton Carroll breaks out on his own, ranging from 18th century folk to parched-soul piano balladry.
Lisa Germano Reviewed
Lisa Germano In The Maybe World (Young God) In her return to the recording realm, Lisa Germano is all about the ambience on In The Maybe World. There are some attention-getters, however.
PJ Pacifico Reviewed
PJ Pacifico Well I’ll Be (Viper) Ex-Sunflower frontman P.J. Pacifico follows the straight-and-narrow on his debut LP.
The Receiver Reviewed
The Receiver Decades (Stunning Models On Display) Pinback have so many side projects under so many different identities it’d be easy to be fooled into thinking this was another.
L.E.O. Reviewed
L.E.O. Alpalcas Orgling (Cheap Lullaby) Note the anagram: ELO-ish pop by supergroup of Hansons, Bleu, Jellyfish, Black Crowes, and Papas Fritas.
Chad Rex & The Victorstands Reviewed
Chad Rex & The Victorstands Gravity Works Fire Burns (Mars Motors) Bless Chad Rex’s heart. Fully aware of his sound, he takes a shot at himself and recorded “Song For Paul Westerberg To Sing.”
Women & Children overbored
Women And Children Paralyzed Dance, Tonight (Narnack) California, Canada, and France conspire behind the year’s most despondent debut.
Oxford Collapse reviewed
Oxford Collapse Remember The Night Parties (Sub Pop) For their third album, Oxford Collapse exploit their inner indie child to shake up a dedication to jammy psychedelia.
Howling Hex return
The Howling Hex Nightclub Version Of Eternal (Drag City) Neil Michael Hagerty, God bless him, is making “border music.” While his New Mexico home seems to offer a clue, it’s a misleading one.
Memory Band reviewed
The Memory Band Apron Strings (DiChristina) English folkie Stephen Cracknell envisions folk supergroup; adheres to Brit folk tradition.
Kottak reviewed
Kottak Therupy (Escapi) Formerly known as Krunk, one-time Scorpions drummer Jimmy Ratchitt and Tommy Lee’s sister Athena ratchet up the noise as Kottak.
Corrina Repp Reviewed
Corrina Repp The Absent And The Distant (Caldo Verde) If anyone belongs on tour with ex-Red House Painter Mark Kozelek, it’s stark rumbler Corrina Repp. As it stands, she’s the only other artist on his label.
Justin Sconza Reviewed
Justin Sconza Paint By Numbers (Brilliante) Walter Meego member Justin Sconza goes it alone on seven-track EP.
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