American Football – American Football (25th Anniversary Edition)

From the band’s Bandcamp site: “American Football cut its first—and, for a long time, only—LP in four days, as the spring of 1999 slid into summer. Steve Holmes, Steve Lamos, and Mike Kinsella were college kids who knew that as soon as their album of spacious and tenderly sad songs Continue Reading

Fallen – Secret Prayers to the Wise Dormant Moon

I want to express my gratitude to Lorenzo Bracaloni (Fallen) for informing me about this release. It is a remarkable piece of sonic art—subtly experimental, somewhat ambient, and absolutely captivating to listen to. This is true headphone music, and since it was released by the esteemed Italian record label ROHS!, Continue Reading

Yelka – In A Rose Hat

From the band’s Bandcamp site: “A strikingly different take on contemporary America—YELKA’s In A Rose Hat offers an artistic perspective far removed from stadium rock or trap trends. It’s an intimate, almost cinematic interpretation that upends expectations. “Crawl into your hibernation, don’t wait for a new sensation…” the opening, ´Colors Continue Reading

Loren Connors & David Grubbs – Evening Air

What an absolutely sublime record performed by two legends, released on one of the best labels in operation today.  From Room40’s Bandcamp site: “Evening Air is the result Loren Connors and David Grubbs’s first trip to the recording studio in the two decades since their first duo album, Arborvitae (Häpna). Continue Reading

Various Artists – Audion 60 (multimedia)

The Brothers Freeman grace us with a recent edition of the premier progressive rock magazine, full of in-depth reviews of new albums in the genre as well as trips down memory lane in terms of the Italian prog scene.  Also included, of course, are sound samples of the of the Continue Reading