Album Reviews

Kuf Knotz A Positive Light Reviewed by: Matt Kelchner A Positive Light has been a long work in progress for local emcee Kuf Knotz. From moving back and forth between Philadelphia and New York multiple times as well as a number of bad breakups with lovers, friends and bandmates, Read More

Chastity Belt Time to Go Home Reviewed by: Max Miller     Don’t let the Sears Portrait Studio press photos fool you; Seattle’s Chastity Belt harbor a darkness that runs deeper than their bubblegum-pop imagery, much like label mates Tacocat and Colleen Green. Beneath the Read More

Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit Reviewed By: Lauren Rosier     Courtney Barnett garnered enormous success with the release of her U.S. debut record, The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas and the first single off the record, “Avant Read More

Joel Plaskett The Park Avenue Sobriety Test Reviewed by: Brian Roser     I love this guy, if for no other reason than the lyrics- “You have the right to bear arms and I have the right to bare feet.” The album seems to vacillate from mildly maudlin to cheerfully Read More

Houndmouth Little Neon Limelight Reviewed by: Max Miller     You’ll have to forgive me for coming into this a little cynical, but I expected Little Neon Limelight, the sophomore album from New Albany, Indiana’s Houndmouth, to mostly be a lot of fluff thrown together to Read More

LiquidLight Reactionary Reviewed by: Jane Roser     Portland, Oregon quartet LiquidLight combine pop, rock and psychedelic mojo into their new EP, Reactionary, swirling it all together to create a Beatles meets Kula Shaker milkshake with a little Smashing Pumpkins and Read More