Reviews of Music, Movies, Anime & More

Kissing Cousins’ music contains just the right amounts of coyness, sensuality, innocence, and bad-ass swagger.

Haunt the Upper Hallways might sound awfully familiar if you’ve been a longtime Hood fan, but that doesn’t mean it’s stale or that there aren’t plenty of lovely moments throughout the album.

Where Mono does triumph, and what prevents them from sounding stale and repetitive, is the emotional heft that their music brings to bear.

Ronald of Orange reminds me of just why I enjoy Ronnie Martin’s music so much.

St. Kilda’s music is the perfect soundtrack for strange, somnambulistic moments.

The shortness of these pieces only enhances the beauty contained therein.

An evocative recording for doomed voyages through uncharted, treacherous — and heartbreakingly beautiful — waters.

Three all-too-short tracks that show off Lansing-Dreiden’s music in all of its glorious and maddening facets.

Dial M is yet another fine offering from one of the most reliable and dependable names in music today.

The cover art promises more than the music, as good as it may get at times, can ultimately deliver.

Au Revoir Borealis returns after a long hiatus with a lush, darkly beautiful album perfectly suited for these trying times of ours.

Disappear continues Ceremony’s ear-shredding track record with a collection of short-but-sweet tracks guaranteed to rend your speakers in two.

It should come as no shock that A Wingless King, the group’s newest full-length, sounds somewhat like a musical artifact unstuck in time.

The Manchester-based six-piece have a decided fixation on the sounds associated with the glory days of 4AD Records.

Perfect soundtrack material for late night excursions.

The perfect soundtrack for a nice cup of tea and your favorite Murakami novel.

You can listen to these songs twenty times and still not hear all of the sonic details contained therein.

At its best, I find it to be just as affecting as when I heard “Dreaming of Spires” so long ago.

An album that is thoroughly obsessed with creating soundscapes as amorphous and spectral as possible — for better or worse.

Even among diehard shoegazer fans, Chorus might be something of an acquired taste, but it’s never less than fascinating.