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ALBUM REVIEW: David Ramirez finds peace and confidence on 'All the Not So Gentle Reminders', his first record in four years
“The Music Man,” the lead single from the new David Ramirez, opens with an ode to the Walkman. Ramirez describes his younger self—innocent, free of existential dread—blindsided by mind-altering wonder when his dad gave him one. “The wheels began to turn / the magnets both took control,” Ramirez sings
ALBUM REVIEW: Jason Boland and the Stragglers return to their roots on 'Last Kings of Babylon'
The new Jason Boland and the Stragglers album closes with an image right out of Steinbeck: “Lonesome travelers and rambling types / shuffling down some unknown trail tonight,” Boland sings in “Buffalo Return,” penned by late Oklahoma songwriter Jimmy LaFave. “In your hobo jungles and your boxcar dreams / living only by
ALBUM REVIEW: Cuchulain Sings About His Loves On 'Window Seat'
Somewhere in his native South Carolina, the Oregon-based Cuchulain—who makes music under that mononym—met his someone special. Still fresh-faced and young, they stayed up late all summer, getting wasted to college radio: “Rolled in the grass in late July / we watched the dance of the fireflies,” Cuchulain sings
ALBUM REVIEW: Chris Acker's 'Famous Lunch' Relishes Small, Weird Moments of Life
EDITOR'S NOTE: Chris Acker's Famous Lunch came out on Oct. 11 on Gar Hole Records. We're reviewing it now as part of a year-end round up of some of the best albums we missed along the way this year.
On “Cursive Proverbs,” from his
ALBUM REVIEW: With 'Waiting for a Sign,' Hataali Paints the Sunset of America
If Sleater-Kinney and David Bowie wrote a song in the Arizona desert, the result might sound like Hataałii’s “Something’s in the Air.”
“Hand in hand should see it through / Oh, I got some news for you,” Hataałii sings over the track’s propulsive pep. “Sometimes life ain’t
ALBUM REVIEW: Yarn Channels Live Roots-Rock Energy Into ‘Born, Blessed, Grateful & Alive’
Yarn’s latest, Born, Blessed, Grateful & Alive, opens with grand, sweeping blues rock and an imperative: get off that screen and join the party. The music, the message to “Turn Off the News,” neither are all that radical, but that’s not the point. It feels good — full stop.