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2928 miles (4712 km in civilized measurements) is the distance separating Grace Potter’s current home, Topanga Canyon, from her native Vermont; a journey she has made several times by car and which serves as the common thread of this road movie she presents to us.
We said goodbye in February to the review of Westside Cowboy’s previous EP with the hope of soon receiving their debut album and being led back to that unique habitat where guitar pop, indie-rock, and folk go hand in hand. Since then, the hype has continued to grow, as advance singles were released and they … Read more
Six years have passed since Punisher made her the great icon of contemporary melancholy. With all this baggage comes her third work, an ambitious and complex piece.
This is an album about heartbreak, about painful breakups and their immense expanses, which can either create works that are excessively self-indulgent and indebted to that pain, or sensitive, subtle, and constructive works. Lordy is one of the latter. Houndmouth offers us 35 minutes in which, in that Americana shed where some keep their most … Read more
Six years later, after overcoming health issues that bordered on debilitating, lineup changes, and tireless bumps in the road, the Canadians are back. Within, their first fully independent work, arrives articulated under the maxim of putting everything out there without inhibitions.
What La Estrategia del Caracol and Cámara Chilena de la Destrucción have created isn’t the typical contractual alliance where two bands gather discards to fill a format. El Hambre y las Ganas de Comer feels like a cohesive and fierce studio album, an eight-track pitched battle where both sides feed on the same rage to deliver one of the most well-rounded works of the Latin American independent scene so far this year.
«Splat!», without being a conceptual album, plays with the idea that, as a society, we are advancing at such a dizzying pace that we are making too many mistakes. Even so, they encourage us to maintain hope: every change, no matter how difficult, will ultimately be for the better.
The third round from Australia’s Genesis Owusu with REDSTAR WU AND THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE is the expansive and ambitious flipside that his acclaimed debut deserved. Here, Owusu shatters any stylistic ceiling, operating as a chamaleonic frontman capable of tossing into the same blender the pulse of punk-rap, George Clinton-esque basslines, and textures of a post-punk revival that collides head-on with the warmth of neo-soul.
Sturgill Simpson is an Americana buccaneer. This album, his ninth since 2023, is his second under his new alias: Johnny Blue Skies, now officially accompanied in the credits by the Dark Clouds.
Dead Pioneers’ third full-length, Wagon Burner, is here, and as with their two previous works, the band isn’t playing for a draw; they never speculate. It’s not that they don’t know the meaning of the word, they just don’t like it.