Reviews

On his second full-length for Barsuk, Yellow Ostrich’s Alex Schaaf has the whole band at his disposal and uses it to bare his teeth.

Windy & Carl’s first full-length in 4 years sees the ambient/drone twosome presenting as glossy a record as they’ve ever put to tape.

Patches of Blue is a strong and diverse collection of tunes from Edgar Breau, who dabbles in Fahey-isms, blues, bossa nova, and more.

Folk singer Joel Henderson pens tunes that echo our search for ever-elusive answers and the resolve required to move forward.

GBV’s frontman puts forth yet another distinctly Pollard solo album, with all of the inconsistency and tainted promise that entails.

All the elements come together on Cowboy Junkies’ last offering of their Nomad Series. Quite simply one of the band’s best yet.

Perhaps the least musical Cursive record to date, I Am Gemini sees Kasher and his cohorts dabbling in the grim and twisted.

Virgin Forest displays glimmers of brilliance, but ultimately — and disappointingly — shifts between multiple aesthetics for the duration.

Mark Lanegan teams up with Alain Johannes once more to create a rock album that’s as soulful as any released in the past little while.

Gonjasufi refines one side of his craft, but he may in turn have also sacrificed some of the spark from his genre-mashing explorations.

Undoubtedly, Born To Die is the most talked-about album of 2012 thus far and in many ways it deserves this attention.

On his second drum and voice album, percussionist and prominent Drag City collaborator Neal Morgan stakes his own territory.

Ani DiFranco returns with an album that’s both biting in its political commentary and enticing in its personal, non-protest subject matter.

Avant-folk singer and guitarist Ilyas Ahmed traps himself in different worlds on With Endless Fire, grappling with two sides throughout.

Snow Patrol pick up where they left off on Fallen Empires, as a mere shell of what made the band special in the first place.