Authors: Ryan Hall
Local Review: My Education / Theta Naught – Sound Mass...
My Education/Theta Naught Sound Mass = GSY!BE + Dirty Three + Oiseux-Tempête … read more
Local Review: Jake Burch – Bloodflower
Jake Burch sings like someone pleading for absolution, as if he’s somewhere in the astral plane, stuck between stations. Burch’s voice can move up the octave scale from a twangy, marble-mouthed drawl to an impressive Jeff Buckley howl in a strained falsetto that pushes the recording into the red in a few quick movements. … read more
Local Review: I Hear Sirens – Between Consciousness and Sleep
I Hear Sirens Between Consciousness and Sleep Lyre Records Street: 06.22 I Hear Sirens = Mogwai + Daturah + Explosions in the Sky Between consciousness and sleep—that sounds about right for this album. I am not saying that I Hear Sirens are boring—what I am saying is that this album dwells in the twilight,
Local Review: Grizzly Spectre – All of Them Witches
Grizzly Spectre = Arthur Russell + Loscil + Julianna Barwick … read more
Local Review: Faces In Mountains – Brain Slave EP
Faces In Mountains = Lymbyc Systym + Bugfood + Mooninite … read more
Local Review: Christopher Alvarado – Ancient Doors
There are three optimal environments for Christopher Alvarado’s newest album, Ancient Doors: the reception area of a yoga studio, a crystal shop, and exploring the rich digital worlds of MYST. … read more
Local Review: Christopher Alvarado & Ari Porki – Menagerie Of...
Like-minded New Age/dark ambient artists Christopher Alvarado and Finland’s Ari Porki have combined their crystal-gazing, third eyes to create a record marinating in New Age clichés and sweat from a thousand soccer moms during hot yoga. … read more
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: Bird Watcher – The Luna Sessions
In the ghetto, a “Bird Watcher” means something totally different than this sonically adventurous, emotionally distraught collection of songs from these shape-shifting Ogden musicians. I would know because Cincinnati has ghettos. … read more
Local Review: BEETSBLOG – LOVERS AND FRIENDS
BEETSBLOG = Blue Jazz TV + Ariel Pink + Adrian Knight … read more
Local Review: Ben Best & Karl Jørgensen – 2
Coming on the heels of a well-received 2012 collaboration, Utah County’s finest sonic pioneers and purveyors of structural, minimal, experimental music regain that same magic in their aptly titled album, 2. … read more
Local Review: Anthropology – Anthology
This type of Midwestern math-pop made by and for music eggheads often goes unexplored by musicians shoehorned into bands who don’t have the same penchant for shredding in some perversely weird time signature or really appreciate near–blast beat double kick drum or two-handed tapping in a pop format. … read more
