I’ll start with the bad. I wish Kathryn Legendre’s EP, Making It Up, was a full album. These five songs are essentially perfect and the only thing that would make them better is if there were five more. Legendre’s neo-traditional…
I’m writing this shortly before my sister’s wedding. I’ve been at my job the longest I’ve worked anywhere and I’m about to move in with my love. It has me wondering: what does it mean to settle down? What is…
Strap on your cowboy hat and buckle up your bell bottoms — you’ll need both for Girls on Grass’s spaghetti Western psychedelia on their second full-length album Dirty Power. It’s the band’s first release on four years and it reflects…
I’m glad that this is the album that puts M. Lockwood Porter on the radar. It’s Porter’s third full-length and is the crystallization of a number of themes Porter began to sketch out on his majestic How to Dream Again,…
CW: This post discusses sexual violence Don’t come into this album expecting to leave unscathed. Traveling Mercies is just one of those albums that demonstrates that a single person — in this case, Emily Scott Robinson — can, indeed have…