Album: Special Friend – Clipping
Though each song on Special Friend’s third record is different, the duo has a signature sound that ties everything together.
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Album: Justin Sconza – Fantasy
Short and sweet, well-rounded and perfectly formed: Chicago songsmith Justin Sconza’s classic songwriting will put a smile on your face.
Album: Aizat Haris – The World Keeps On Spinning
“It’s pretty underground, you wouldn’t know what that, uh, what that is,” jests “Parting Words”,
Album: Elly Kace – The Seventh Gate
Elly Kace brings us ten new “sound medicine songs” for healing and release from the world’s many trappings.
Album: How I Became Invisible – Dead World Building (Gimp Leg’s Take)
How I Became Invisible isn’t a disappearing act: It’s a survival guide for a community.
Album: kingcaid – Colorblind Quarterback
kingcaid’s new album is a delicious smorgasbord of styles and genres, and is populated by a cast of distinct personalities.
Album: How I Became Invisible – Dead World Building (Christian’s Take)
Two of our Start-Track writers took a liking to How I Became Invisible’s new album,
Album: parallel – frail
The new album from parallel is hazy, distinctive, melancholic and a resounding success.
Album: The Mad Mile – Legroom
Legroom is crammed full of chugging riffs and elegant motifs, with more light and shade than a Renaissance painting.
Album: Olive Jones – For Mary
Olive blends her soul, jazz and blues influences to create an album that is destined to become a modern classic.
Album: Sleeps While Walking – Sleeps II
The staples are still there, the lamenting vocals, the solemn yet heavy guitar, the overall washed-out sound, but there is something more mature about this record. It isn’t just sad for the sake of being sad; it tackles the emotion with purpose and refuses to give in or let go.
Album: Karter AKA – Dangerous Creatures
This is an album that will sink its teeth in and not let go.
Album: Silver Heir – Hindenburg Variations
Borne from multiple once-in-a-lifetime crises, Silver Heir’s debut record finally sees the light after eighteen years in the making
Album: The Del-Viles – It’s Just A Kiss-Off
Our favourite thing we’ve heard so far this year, and we’re sure it’ll take some beating.
Album: The Iddy Biddies – The World Inside
Full of emotion, conviction, and consideration, all delivered with an enchanting and engaging musicality.
Album: Murkage Dave – Brut Thoughts
On his third album, Dave spills his soul into 36 minutes of introspective commentary and music difficult to pigeonhole.
Album: Mega Infinity – Harmonic Convergence
As the album closes and I play it over and over, I realize you’re not supposed to listen to it. Not with your ears. This album is an odyssey that you are supposed to feel.
Album: Various Artists – Minute Tango
A unique album made up of songs all around a minute in length, fitting on a 7″ single.
Album: Daily Worker – Prefab Maverick
With more hooks than a fisherman’s tackle box, Prefab Maverick is an earworm factory.
Album: Bobby Edge – Dirt Handsome vol. 1
In the 2023rd year of our lord, born of New York (possibly, or maybe he