Langhorne Slim & the Law — The Way We Move. Out now, Ramseur Records. Leave it to Langhorne Slim to write an optimistic breakup record: Slim’s songwriting has always leaned towards the honestly hopeful, or maybe the hopeful truth, and he takes it to a place of heartbreak, healing, and, welll, truth on his latest…
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two sentence reviews of albums i listened to in may
Reptar — Body Faucet: if the weather is getting hot where you live, and you have been thinking to yourself, self, I really could use an excellently danceable, shimmer-chime electronic pop album with surprisingly clever and catchy songwriting for the summer, look! Reptar made you an album. If you can listen to this without dancing…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in april
I swear I listened to more than this, but apparently I didn’t write about them. I’ll do better in May. Anyway: boom, new albums, including two from my beloved This Is American Music. Carolina Chocolate Drops — Leaving Eden: Triangle GRAMMY winners follow up 2010’s spectacular Genuine Negro Jig with this one, which is a…
wylie hunter & the cazadores — someone you used to know
Wylie Hunter & the Cazadores — Someone You Used To Know. Out 3/31 with a release show at Local 506, Chapel Hill, NC. 9PM with Onward, Soldiers and the Tomahawks. Based on my could-I-borrow-a-PA test, I probably shouldn’t write about the full-length debut from Wylie Hunter and his merry band of Cazadores, since they’d all…
justin townes earle — nothing’s gonna change the way you feel about me now
Justin Townes Earle — Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now. Out 3/28, Bloodshot Records. When it comes to my favorite artists releasing new albums, I have two pre-release schools of anxiety: there’s the anxiety that this artist I love is going to make a super shitty album, and I am going…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in february
Damien Jurado — Maraqopa: psychdelic, ringing, and bleak, this is my first encounter with Jurado beyond a perennial favorite promo photo of him smoking a cigarette in a bathroom, and I love it. It’s scary and huge, and the guitar work on it is otherworldly in both talent and sound. Estrogen Highs — Irrelevant Future:…
craig finn — clear heart full eyes
Craig Finn — Clear Heart Full Eyes. Out 1/24/2012. Vagrant Records. The thing is — and this doesn’t make me an expert, or smug and self-satisfied, or anything but opinionated, this is just the way I feel — the thing is that I think there’s a certain something in Craig Finn’s songwriting, a tiny pinch…
dr dog — be the void
Dr Dog — Be The Void. Out 2/7, Anti- Records. I spent most of the weekend thinking about what I wanted to say about Dr. Dog’s fifth full length LP, Be The Void. I have listened to it a dozen times since getting a copy for review, and I understand that I love it unconditionally,…
two sentence reviews of reasonably new albums i listened to in december and january
Short and sweet this month. Didn’t process much new stuff, but getting ready to dig in. February will be big! Estrangers — Black Ballroom: a debut release from a Winston-Salem band, this is fuzzy and catchy garage rock, similar to what the Smith Westerns are doing. It shimmers and swings, and the distorted vocals with…
kathleen edwards — voyageur
Kathleen Edwards — Voyageur. Out 1/17, Zoe Records. When I fell in love with Kathleen Edwards, between Back to Me and Asking for Flowers, it was on the strength of her songwriting: I am tired of playing defense and I don’t even own hockey skates, or asking for flowers is like asking you to be…
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