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...
Modest Mouse cover record unremarkable musically, but shines as a physical RSD release CMH Records These genre inversion cover albums have been around in various forms for a while now — lullaby, string, bluegrass, et al. — and the concept is pretty simple. The artist being covered — Metallica,...
Craig Smith collection has one pondering the connection between music, the story behind creation Maitreya Apache Music Sound Opinions, the long-running public radio music program from Chicago’s WBEZ, frequently makes a point with which I rarely agree, in that the story behind an album can render a release...
An intriguing first outing from UK duo Self-released Self-described as “electro-alternative-indie,” MUX is a duo based in London whose sound “blends elements of electronica, stoner, trip-hop, krautrock and punk.” That’s a pretty diverse description, but after listening to their four-song debut...
Kyd’s ‘Robinson: The Journey’ soundtrack a concise and powerful work Black Screen Records Robinson: The Journey is a relatively exceptional VR experience for what it is, and the soundtrack is no different. Jesper Kyd, with recent successes in Battle Chasers: Nightwar and Warhammer:...
Third outing from Austin electronic project blows minds in its physical form Burning Witches Records The electronic project of Austin, Texas musician Alex Cuervo, Espectrostatic has been grabbing the ears of horror fans since the first self-titled full-length in 2013. While there’d been a digital-only...
