Release date: February 21stRecord label: Comedy Minus OneGenre: 90s indie rock, SilkwormFormats: Vinyl, CD (included with LP) I’ve written about Silkworm more than I’ve written about any other band, but it’s not every day that Developer gets reissued, so here we go again. I have, in fact, written at least a paragraph about every Silkworm-relatedContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Silkworm, ‘Developer’ (Reissue)”
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Pressing Concerns: Pacing, ‘Songs’
Release date: January 7thRecord label: Asian ManGenre: Anti-folk, indie pop, bedroom pop, singer-songwriter, indie folk, tweeFormats: CD, digital Those of you who were following this blog in 2023 may remember Pacing from their album Real poetry is always about plants and birds and trees and the animals and milk and honey breathing in the pinkContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Pacing, ‘Songs’”
Pressing Concerns: Mope Grooves, ‘Box of Dark Roses’
Release date: October 25thRecord label: 12XU/Night SchoolGenre: Lo-fi pop, art pop, post-punk, experimental punk, tweeFormats: Vinyl, digital I don’t really want to talk about this record. There’s too much to say about it, and also nothing to say about it. Box of Dark Roses is the fifth and final album from Mope Grooves, a Portland,Continue reading “Pressing Concerns: Mope Grooves, ‘Box of Dark Roses’”
Pressing Concerns: St. Lenox, ‘Ten Modern American Work Songs’
Release date: October 25thRecord label: Anyway/Don GiovanniGenre: Indie pop, singer-songwriter, synthpopFormats: Vinyl, digital I believe that Andrew Choi’s previous album as St. Lenox, 2021’s Ten Songs of Worship and Praise for Our Tumultuous Times, still holds the record for “most words I’ve written about a single album for this blog” to this day. St. Lenox’sContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: St. Lenox, ‘Ten Modern American Work Songs’”
Pressing Concerns: Spirit Night, ‘Time Won’t Tell’
Release date: October 4thRecord label: Self-releasedGenre: Jangle pop, indie pop, synthpop, post-punk, dream popFormats: Vinyl, digital One of my favorite albums of last year was Bury the Dead by Spirit Night, the long-awaited fourth album from the band of former The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die guitaristContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Spirit Night, ‘Time Won’t Tell’”
Pressing Concerns: Downhaul, ‘How to Begin’
Release date: September 20thRecord label: Self Aware/Landland ColportageGenre: Alt-country, emo-indie rock, power pop, roots rock, folk rockFormats: Vinyl, cassette, digital My favorite moment on How to Begin, the third album from Richmond rock band Downhaul, comes about a minute into the song “YCBTT”. The entire song is impressive, of course–Andrew Seymour’s skipping drumbeat and RobbieContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Downhaul, ‘How to Begin’”
Pressing Concerns: Bad Moves, ‘Wearing Out the Refrain’
Release date: September 13thRecord label: Don GiovanniGenre: Power pop, pop punkFormats: Vinyl, CD, digital Washington D.C. power quartet Bad Moves made one memorable first impression back in 2018 with Tell No One, which still stands as one of the best punk rock debut LPs in recent memory a half-dozen years later. Their sophomore album, Untenable,Continue reading “Pressing Concerns: Bad Moves, ‘Wearing Out the Refrain’”
Pressing Concerns: Micah Schnabel, ‘The Clown Watches the Clock’
Release date: May 15thRecord label: Self-releasedGenre: Country punk, alt-country, Americana, cowpunkFormats: Vinyl, CD, digital I’m not like the other girls. The kids these days are into alt-country because Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee or Karly Hartzman of Wednesday or whatever other indie rock sensation put them onto it. I’m into alt-country because those bands were theContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Micah Schnabel, ‘The Clown Watches the Clock’”
Pressing Concerns: Mister Goblin, ‘Frog Poems’
Release date: April 26thRecord label: SpartanGenre: Singer-songwriter, alt-rock, folk rock, post-punkFormats: Vinyl, digital Adhering to the rule of threes, Sam Goblin says “fuck” three times on the latest Mister Goblin album, Frog Poems. Although all these f-bombs are dropped in decidedly different ways, I do see a connecting thread between them and taking them asContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Mister Goblin, ‘Frog Poems’”
Pressing Concerns: Late Bloomer, ‘Another One Again’
Release date: March 1stRecord label: Self Aware/Dead Broke/Tor JohnsonGenre: Punk rock, 90s indie rock, fuzz rock, college rockFormats: Vinyl, cassette, digital There’s this whole cottage industry around the question of “why didn’t The Replacements make it big?” that’s sprung up over the years, with those both around them and affected by them pontificating on theContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Late Bloomer, ‘Another One Again’”
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