Causa Sui : In Flux

Causa Sui hit – to my ears at least – a career high with last year’s excellent From The Source. It picked up where 2020’s Szabodelico left off. Szabodelico was steeped in tropicalia vibes; clean guitar lines, moody keys, and delicate percussion and bass gave the album a very vibe-heavy feel. A sound that was […]

Kills Birds : Crave

When I was 18 oldies rock and roll were bands like the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks, and surf music. Those bands seemed light years away from what I was listening to. Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, NIN, Garbage, etc…they were the future. The British Invasion and the Beach Boys were the past. Well fast forward 30 […]

L.A. Guns : Leopard Skin

There’s not too many of the classic 80s Sunset Strip rock bands left making music that sounds even remotely close to what they sounded like back in the neon decade. Have you seen any current clips of Mötley Crüe? How about Ratt? Or Dokken? Quiet Riot, anyone? Time, booze, and narcotics have not been kind […]

Dead Meadow : Voyager To Voyager

Dead 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 […]

The Psychic Circle : Wizards of the Watchtower

The Psychic Circle is the U.K. psych/prog project of Tom McDowell(compositions/synths/organs) and Jack Harris(guitar/bass). Since 2020 the band has released three LPs ranging from acid-tinged psych rock to proggier tendencies, as well as touches of the 70s Giallo scores of Goblin and Fabio Frizzi. All of those elements come together into something quite unique, singular, […]

Youth Lagoon : Rarely Do I Dream

Trevor Powers, aka Youth Lagoon, seems to be making up for lost time. After taking a several years hiatus from his main music project and releasing records under his own name, Powers brought Youth Lagoon back into the sunlight. It seems a serious health crisis put things into stark perspective and allowed Trevor to see […]

Causa Sui : Loppen 2024

What better way to break in the new year than with a brand new live album from Denmark’s reigning kings of fuzzed-out psych rock Causa Sui. For the past 20 years the quartet known as Causa Sui(Jonas Munk, Jess Kahr, Rasmus Rasmussen, Jakob Skøtt) have been worshipping at the alter of Blues For The Red […]

Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory : Self-Titled

I think Sharon Van Etten has always had a Goth queen inside of her just waiting to come out. Even from the very beginning her albums ached with the kind of doomed romanticism that Siouxsie Sioux, Kate Bush, and Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser trademarked back in the heyday of early 80s alternative. Van Etten leaned […]

Delta IV : Radium Arc

If you’ve been following along with Seattle’s electronic synth duo Delta IV for the last few years, you’d notice a steady progression. They’re following in the footsteps of legends like Zombi, Tangerine Dream, post-Gabriel Genesis, and The Secret Machines; forging thoughtful, expansive sound worlds through big drums and steely synths. And while the retro-futuristic, chromed-out […]

Mogwai : The Bad Fire

Scottish post-rock OGs Mogwai have been blowing minds and ear drums for closing in on 30 years. They’ve expanded their monolithic guitar-heavy sound over the years to include synthesizers, electronics, and have even gotten into film scoring. And on a personal note, I saw Mogwai back in 2004 open for The Curiosa Festival and can […]