‘Get Out’ a slightly lengthy yet sufficiently creepy score Waxwork Records Jordan Peele wanted a specific sound when he enlisted the help of composer Michael Abels for the score to 2017 breakout film Get Out. Peele found Abels — a composer known for blending genres like bluegrass, jazz,...
Experimental French outfit delivers a deeply rich live album Crammed Discs Aquaserge’s Deja-vous ticks so many boxes: fearless exploration, stellar sound quality, solid musicianship, and interesting compositions that stay in your head well after the first listen. It’s a deeply rich album, sure...
The Great Sadness — Weep Self-released The Great Sadness is a punk-blues duo from Los Angeles, and while they’re good, the band unfortunately demonstrates the limitations of their particular form. Unless a duo such as theirs is using some really amazing looping techniques, or doubling up to provide...
Twin Foxes — Sleeping on the Attic Floor Tor Johnson Records / Midnight Werewolf Records Tags on the Bandcamp page for this release give hints as to what to expect from Twin Foxes’ debut full-length — Superchunk, Modest Mouse, post-punk, hardcore — but the fullness of Sleeping on the Attic Floor...
A wildly uneven yet curious reissue of an impossibly rare album Real Gone Music Blues and Haikus is American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac’s second album, originally released in 1959 and long out-of-print on vinyl. The album largely consists of Kerouac’s spoken-word poetry, with Zoot Sims and Al Cohn...
Classic miniseries score gets an expanded vinyl release Waxwork Records Richard Bellis’ IT score excels at one of the hardest things to pull off in horror music: subtlety. While there remains plenty of quick synth stabs and crashes peppered throughout, it’s the quiet piano and strings that deceptively...
