CD Reviews
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Cub Sport
This Is Our Vice is a great synth-pop record for a casual listen as well as an energizing one.
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Human Music
With most of the music industry relying on computers and machines to play music, the local indie band Human Music takes it back a few decades to when the music was still played by humans.
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Attica Riots - Love Sunshine & Hysteria
Long-time fans of Attica Riots and their electrifying live set finally have something to take home.
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Animal Teeth - A List of Things to Say
Animal Teeth’s second album comes as a great addition to their discography.
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Coma Cinema - Loss Memory
The fifth and final album from Coma Cinema, Loss Memory, is a wonderfully emotional and original final statement from multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Matthew Lee Cothran
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Ancient Shapes - Self-titled
Ancient Shapes’ debut record starts fast and ends faster. This quick-paced album throws the listener straight into the band’s hands, giving barely enough time for a breather.
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4th Curtis - I Won the Pageant
4th Curtis has created a wonderfully clever and theatrical indie pop album with their 2017 debut full-length, I Won The Pageant.
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notme - Mask
If your New Year’s resolution was to listen to more local shoegaze music, then your year is already off to a good start.
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Beverly Tender
Just in time to begin hibernating for the winter, Beverly Tender deliver another album full of brilliant and well-informed angular indie rock.
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Friendship, Shock out of Season
This is yet another beautiful release from Chicago-based Orindal Records.
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The Famous Sandhogs
The album cover for this CD was, and still is, a drawing of a red guy done in marker with the name of the band and album taped onto it. This is because The Famous Sandhogs are a Wacky Band.
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The New Customs - All Walls Fall
A neo-folk duo from our very own city, The New Customs is made up of locals Emma Cloney and Dale Brown.
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Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet
As a whole, Soft Sounds from Another Planet is badass, fun, but also heartbreaking.
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Animal Teeth - A List of Things to Say
The three new preview tracks from Animal Teeth’s upcoming release, A List of Things to Say (out Nov. 4 on Slow Shine Records), stay within the band’s dreamy sadcore indie pop-rock aesthetic.
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Andy Shauf - The Party
Andy Shauf’s fourth album, The Party is a twist from all of his previous albums.
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Prophets of Rage - Self-titled
If you’re tired of hearing the repetitive themes that are found within much of new music today and are interested in hearing songs with both a unique sound and point of view, then look no further than the debut album from Prophets of Rage.
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Faith Healer - Try ;)
Try ;), Edmonton act Faith Healer’s sophomore album, begins in medias res, with the drone of a dial tone.
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Jay Som
Everybody Works is bedroom dream pop in its fullest fine form.
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The Shins
James Mercer and company are back after a five-year hiatus with an album that triumphantly returns to their indie-pop primed, psych-folk spangled, surf-tinged rock.
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Ferraro
Brotherly rock trio Ferraro came onto the scene with an authentic sound that reminds listeners of what makes music from the era of five-cent bottles of Coca-Cola worth loving.
