“You don’t look like the type who’d be traveling with an elephant,” says a sympathetic stranger in the opening scene of Pop Aye (not to be confused with Robert Altman’s 1980 failed attempt to pay tribute to a beloved cartoon…
Album Review: Palehound – “A Place I’ll Always Go”
With their 2015 full-length debut, the delightfully fuzzy Dry Food, Palehound established themselves as a pronounced addition to a division of indie darlings (featuring such groups as Hop Along and Speedy Oritz) bent on thrusting their love of the mid-90s…
Album Review: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – “The Nashville Sound”
On the opening number of Jason Isbell’s latest record ‒ “Last of My Kind,” a John Prine tribute even by Isbell standards ‒ the accomplished singer-songwriter entertains the notion that he belongs to a dying breed. Over the next ten…
Album Review: Big Thief – “Capacity”
Adrianne Lenker appears to have been predestined to become one of indie rock’s most naturalistic songwriters, bearing her soul on the track in a manner that genuinely feels as though it is devoid of effort or pretense. She can’t help…
