Songs on Nathan Akin's one-man band debut-- ranging from exhausted folk strummers to an Elliott Smith knock-off to what sounds like an Animal Collective 7amp;quot; played at 78-- center around themes of childhood.
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The cult band's best-known album, 1990's Torch of the Mystics, was originally intended to be a double; outtakes recorded during the sessions, eventually released on 7amp;quot;s, are gathered together in this fine set.
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The third part of a musical trilogy, Futurismo reunites collaborators Moreno Veloso, Alexandre Kassin, and Domenico Lancelotti in yet another permutation, this time with Kassin as leader.
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Animal Collective have followed each of their last three albums with a short companion EP closely related to its predecessor. Right on schedule, here's Water Curses, containing three tracks from the Strawberry Jam sessions and another recorded at Brooklyn's Rare Book Room studio.
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This Scandinavian folk singer embodies the (seemingly) breezy effortlessness of early Bob Dylan, infusing his songs with a detachment that, miraculously, is neither cold nor alienating.
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The two songwriters in this Birmingham, Ala., band come over like deep-fried Gutter Twins, and their obsession with mortality makes them musically omnivorous, as if they must digest as much as possible in their allotted time on Earth.
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After an EP in early 2007, Attack is the debut full-length from Dave Pajo's Louisville-based metal band. His sincerity is not in question, but as to the quality of the music, well...
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Chicago band has pared back some from the gargantuan arrangements and piles of instruments that characterized its second album, 2005's Hysterical Stars, leading to some surprisingly intimate moments on their latest.
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