Anyone reckless enough to have typecast Angel Olsen according to 2013 s Burn Your Fire For No Witness is in for a rethink with her third album, My Woman. The crunchier, blown-out production of the former is gone, but that fire is burning wilder. Her disarming, timeless voice is even more front-and-center. Yet, the strange,…
Phases is a collection of Olsen s work culled from the past several years, including a number of never-before-released tracks. Fly On Your Wall, previously contributed to the Bandcamp-only, anti-Trump fundraiser Our First 100 Days, opens Phases, before seamlessly slipping into Special, a brand new song from the My Woman recording sessions. Both How Many…
St. Louis native Angel Olsen has cut her teeth in Chicago the past half a decade crafting her music into a sincere form of folk music entirely her own. Taking influences from past artists such as Amalia Rodrigues, Timi Yuro and Helen Shapiro, as well as Persian and Turkish folk, Olsen creates something more than just run-of-the-mill…
The time had come, Angel Olsen realized in the fading summer of 2018, to take her new songs out of the house. Olsen s 2016 marvel, My Woman, had been a career break through, but it catalyzed a period of personal tumult, too: a painful breakup, an uneasy recovery, an inadequate reckoning. At home in…
Angels of Light were formed by Michael Gira immediately after the 1997 termination of Swans. With an ever evolving and changing cast of musicians, the albums felt like a huge departure sonically to what had gone before, yet listening back now, they sound like an essential part of Gira s journey to Swans current iteration. Gira…
Angels of Light were formed by Michael Gira immediately after the 1997 termination of Swans. With an ever evolving and changing cast of musicians, the albums felt like a huge departure sonically to what had gone before, yet listening back now, they sound like an essential part of Gira s journey to Swans current iteration. WE…
Repackaged and Remastered Vinyl 2LP Reissue of Ani DiFranco Self-Titled Debut! Originally released in 1990, Ani DiFranco s first album is so revolutionary that the purveyors of status quo install women s music sections in the dusty corner of their stores in order to hide it. Dorm rooms coast to coast transform into audio dub houses where…
Twenty-five years later, Little Plastic Castle feels like a greatest hits collection. Her highest charting release on Billboard (peaking at No. 22) and containing her third Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance – Female ( Glass House ), Ani DiFranco s ninth studio album shows the little folksinger grappling with her independent career bubbling up into the…
Color Of Vinyl Subject To Change Without Notice Call To Confirm Colored Copies Are Still Available Newly remastered for colored triple vinyl in deluxe packaging, this landmark album by Ani DiFranco features her trio from 1995-1996 with Andy Stochansky (drums) and Sara Lee (bass). Twenty-five years later the album is recognized as a point of…
Chiming laments for a childhood s end, the debut album from Animal Collective opens with the phrase want to hear a secret, I know one, suggesting these secrets just might be buried deep within the flocks of high frequencies, electronic glitches, bleeps and swells that follow. Originally released in 2000 and credited to Avey Tare…
“If Giver Taker was an album of prayers, The King is an album of curses.” Anjimile won the world over with the clear-eyed honesty of their first record – a meditation on spirituality and liberation. In 2019 he recorded Giver Taker, a collection of songs written while getting sober in Florida. Giver Taker was critically…
Pulling from all parts of her life, Anne-Marie s third album Unhealthy offers us a sneak peek into her perfectly imperfect world. Penned over a period when she felt ready to revisit and try and make sense of raw, past relationships, whilst also learning to process positive new ones, Unhealthy takes us on a journey from chaos to contentment;…
Formed in the summer of 2001, Annihilation Time was born as an idea between touring friends that ended up actually happening, and then spending the next decade playing shows and recording records. This album represents their earliest of material and serves as the only recording with original singer Fred Hammer, with members who were playing…
My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross is the fifth studio album by Anohni and the Johnsons, formerly known as Antony and the Johnsons. It was released on July 7, 2023, by Secretly Canadian
Anonymous Club is Danny Cohen’s candid documentary about the personal travails and hard-fought triumphs of Courtney Barnett, as she rose through the ranks of indie rock during the last decade. A cautiously redemptive portrait, any happy ending reflects the possibilities of fulfillment and stability, not the things themselves. In May 2021, months before the film’s…
Drummer and composer Tony Williams adventurous 1965 album Spring-his second as a leader for Blue Note-found him convening a stellar line-up with saxophonists Wayne Shorter and Sam Rivers, pianist Herbie Hancock, and bassist Gary Peacock. The five Williams originals presented here offer the musicians spacious realms in which to go exploring. This Blue Note Classic…