"Their days as supreme psychedelic blasters on 'In The Red' are long gone, and they don’t seem to be coming back. They to now serve as the bedrock for an adventurous, rewarding discography that extends well beyond the band’s original constraints. Wand are in the zone, working as quickly as ever and seemingly discovering new […]
"Drummer T.J. Childers plays with terrifying intensity but also with the kind of rhythmic playfulness that lets you know he listens to jazz. Guitarists Trey Dalton and Steven Russell are more concerned with creating atmosphere than with showing off, but they know how to launch into blazing solos when the time is right... They’ve taken […]
"Lushly orchestrated throwback to the golden age of ’70s singer-songwriter pop and ’60s Laurel Canyon folk, two musical traditions intimately entwined with the mythical history of her Los Angeles home... Searching for meaning and love and connection in an era that feels on the precipice of an apocalypse, the personal and the political all wrapped […]
Motown has released Marvin Gaye's 'You’re the Man', the scrapped follow-up to Gaye’s seminal 1971 album 'What’s Going On' - its explicitly political bent prompted Motown to pull promotion, pressure radio stations to remove the title song from playlists, and ultimately stash the whole planned LP. Guardian's critic Alexis Petridis doesn't really like it that […]
"'Nest' is a remarkable adventure, an exploration of territories never before traversed, very much in the spirit of fellow power-trio travelers like Rush and Sleep. Even if it were nothing more than the sum of its parts, 'Nest' would be an astonishing album; the performances alone would be enough to guarantee that. But it is […]
"It’s fired-up, it sounds more pointed and intentional and it makes you sit up and take notice of the intensely layered compositions that [Meg] Duffy has made... Duffy co-produced it with Brad Cook at April Base, the center for Justin Vernon’s coterie of musicians... Duffy has found themselves in a line of modern musicians that […]
