Year: 2014
Local Review: Christopher Alvarado – Creation By Inertia
A well-crafted soundscape album, Creation by Inertia showcases a serene expedition through space and time. It’s droney, ambient and true to the experimental genre. … read more
Local Review: Christopher Alvarado – Infinita
This is a release you want to listen to when you just need a moment to relax. This ambient mood music has everything you need to calm down or practice your naked yoga. … read more
Local Review: Christopher Alvarado – Fog Music 12
Christopher Alvarado = One Horse Town + White Origins + Carbon111 … read more
Local Review: Christopher Alvarado – Translucence
Christopher Alvarado = Enigma + Senking + iVardensphere … read more
Local Review: Charles Ellsworth & Vincent Draper – Salt Lake...
These two like-minded folk singer/songwriters have been helping each other with music projects for a while now, so a split record seems quite in order. … read more
Local Review: Candy’s River House – Stolen in the Middle...
Candy’s River House = Lynyrd Skynyrd + ZZ Top … read more
Local Review: Brad Hart & The Lopez Massacre – Sego...
Armed with a buoyant singing voice falling somewhere between Tim Rutili and Thom Yorke, Brad Hart and his conspicuously named backing band The Lopez Massacre’s debut album… … read more
Local Review: Breaux – Black Wolf
Breaux Black Wolf Self-Released Street: 03.07 Breaux = Scissorfight + He Is Legend Welp, this album has cemented Breaux as one of my new favorite local acts, sucker as I am for some tough-as-coffin-nails Southern metal. The best thing about this album is its incredible range. It has more than just typical Dixie sway, pulling
Local Review: Braeyden Jae – Heaven House
SLC native and ambassador Braeyden Jae has created an album full of near-perfect textures. The timbre of all-encompassing waves drone, and obscured melodic passages peer out of cavernous, swelling sounds. … read more
Local Review: Black Cum – Black Cum Is the Best...
With an album title like Black Cum Is the Best Band On the Planet, it’s not surprising that Black Cum talks about Black Cum repeatedly on the song titles and the songs themselves. … read more
Local Review: Black Seas of Infinity/The Red Path – Ophitic...
There’s something about opening the package containing this split cassette release, pulling a black cassette tape wrapped in shed snakeskin out of the plastic case with some strange symbol/logo on it. … read more
Local Review: Bludgeon Muffin – Revolt
This album—more of an EP, really—is solid, standard reggae. The bass goes as deep as your headphones will let it, and the guitars cascade over with some genre-standard up-strokes and some pretty tasty solos—though some are a little long. … read more