June 2014
Local Review: Various Artists – Lake Mary Presents: Visit
Creating a cohesive compilation can prove difficult when working with a variety of artists and visions. Yet, Lake Mary Presents: Visit seems to be unanimously organized to evoke juxtaposed feelings of serenity in a frigid environment. … read more
Local Review: The Creature From Jekyll Island – Self-Titled
TCFJI conquer and conjure a hell of a lot of musical goodness on their debut record. It’s highly difficult to properly describe and entirely critique what this SLC steampunk/industrial rock band does. … read more
Local Review: Spörk – Spörk 2.Ö
Sometimes good things come in twos, and the second release by local self-proclaimed “stoner rock” duo Spörk—the embodiment of synthetic, petroleum-based fast-food flatware—the musical equivalent of what passes for “journalism” in frontman Bill Frost’s television-addicted, sarcasm-singed, tube-top addled mind… … read more
Local Review: Regurgitated – Pieces
Regurgitated is only a one-man project (though he’s assisted by session musician Adrian Gallegos), which is surprising, because with my time spent listening to Pieces, it almost sounds like I’m listening to a full band. … read more
Local Review: Richard Tyler Epperson – Hourglass
This mix of often sweet-sounding acoustic guitar and multi-layered instrumentation is definitely pop-radio ready. … read more
Local Review: Magic Mint – Grand America
Upon realizing that Magic Mint is the product of a solo endeavor, I had to re-listen to every track before concluding that Andrew Shaw is something of a surf-psych rock factotum. … read more
Local Review: Michael Gross – Golden Hits, Volume 1
Michael Gross is the frontman and founder of the band The Statuettes, but he’s releasing this EP on his own. This EP comprises of five tracks—his “Golden Hits.” … read more
Local Review: Kaptain jacK – The Hippest of the Hop
I don’t think I have ever heard a Warren Zevon sample on a hip-hop album before, but like David Kessler in An American Werewolf in London, Kaptain jacK’s debut is a bloodlust furball roaming the eerie, fog-covered streets. … read more
Local Review: Loud Harp – Asaph
If the majority of popular Christian music is dominated by an annoying “Jesus Is My Boyfriend” take on reality, then the music of Loud Harp comes as a breath of fresh air. … read more
Local Review: Great Interstate – Inversion Songs
Great Interstate is what happens when an emo band decides to skip the whole shitty pop-punk Dashboard Confessional thing and tries to be more like Explosions in the Sky. … read more
Local Review: Heartless Breakers – Lighter Doses
Hot off the heels of their Prescriptions debut EP last year, Lighter Doses is an acoustic breakdown of Prescriptions’ songs mixed in with a couple brand-new ones. … read more
Local Review: Forest Feathers – Hush
With Hush, local artist Cam Sackett takes us through the cosmos on a journey through space and time, crafting a luscious album sprinkled with stardust and glitter. “Stargazer I” and “Stargazer II” start the EP on an epic note that leads humbly into “Mumbled love.”
