Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
I grew up in the early days of indoor malls, neon buzz, and Cannon Films. Dual cassette players, VCRs, and arcades were the technology I worshipped. If a movie didn’t have at least a part III or IV it wasn’t worth the trouble. Microwave cakes, hi-top Reeboks, and t-shirts enshrined with Alf, The A-Team, and […]
Read More Set Adrift On Memory Tapes 80s BlissEvery once in a while you come across an album that feels entirely new. There’s nothing to compare it to, as nothing that came before was built quite like it. You can label it rock, pop, jazz, etc…but the label is merely a means for cataloging in the record store, or in your own collection. […]
Read More Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes : Uhlmann Johnson WilkesDead Meadow have been making crusty, fuzzy psych rock for 25 years now. Their self-titled debut dropped in 2000, setting the stage for the DC psych rockers to lead future packs of stoner/fuzz rockers across the nation to a new generation of slackers wanting desperately to tune in, turn on, and drop out. Dead Meadow […]
Read More Dead Meadow : Voyager To VoyagerThe electronic musical duo of Billow Observatory -which includes Jonas Munk(Causa Sui) and Jason Kolb(Auburn Lull)- have been making understated ambient, instrumental shoegaze, and ethereal dream pop for over a decade now. The transatlantic duo(Kolb resides in Michigan while Munk is located in Denmark) have a knack for writing in a kind of ‘ambient code’ […]
Read More Billow Observatory Return With ‘The Glass Curtain’, Out 4/25The first I’d ever heard of Lucy Dacus was via my oldest kid. They’d given me a copy of her album Historian for either Father’s Day or my birthday, I can’t remember for sure which one. Growing up sharing music with my older brother or my parents was kind of a big deal. It took […]
Read More Lucy Dacus : Forever Is A FeelingIf you were to stumble upon musician/composer/spell caster Klaus Morlock’s Bandcamp page you’d see over 25 releases over the last decade plus. Morlock works in the world of Gothic church organs, woozy 70s synths, and 60s psychedelia, fueled by Hauntology, demonic forces in dilapidated cabins and absinthe. Songs that buzz in the sweet shadows laid […]
Read More “FOLKLORE, PSYCHEDELIA, AND OCCULT INTRIGUE” : Get Lost In Klaus Morlock’s “Run Hide Die”Deafheaven are the kind of band I never thought I’d listen to, let alone find myself fanboying over. The black/death metal shrieks of singer George Clarke were not my taste; blast beats like they were going out of style, not to mention the caffeinated guitar riffs that never relented. On paper I would have passed […]
Read More Deafheaven : Lonely People With PowerHey hey. How are you all doing? Sorry no check-ins this week. There were a lot of albums to listen to and write about, so the personal stuff got put to the way side. I’m here, and it’s Friday, so what better time to have a nice personal, mental cleanse. So last week I was […]
Read More Doing The Things, Keeping My Head Above Water, Ready For Brighter DaysAlabaster DePlume is described as “an English jazz musician, saxophonist, spoken word poet, composer, and activist.” When I read something like that I instantly forget the musician and saxophonist part and concentrate on “poet”, “activist” and think I’m not going to like it. Like the music part of that equation is just a side note for an […]
Read More Alabaster DePlume : A Blade Because A Blade Is WholeRyan McRyhew came into focus for me a decade ago when I bum rushed the Software Recording Co. Bandcamp page. I was full obsessive/compulsive regarding everything Oneohtrix Point Never/Daniel Lopatin and felt like I’d come across a treasure chest of unknown musical pleasures when I discovered the OPN mastermind ran a record label. One of […]
Read More Entrancer : Rit