Review Roundup 3/13: Mal Blum, damsel., Emma Jean Oakley
This week's review roundup highlights Mal Blum getting into character, damsel.'s warm melancholy, and Emma Jean Oakley's defiant heartbreak.
Album Reviews
Sweet Petunia -- Foggy Mountain Mental Breakdown
Boston-based duo Sweet Petunia don't just make traditional music – they want it to last into the future as an evolving art form. Their new album Foggy Mountain Mental Breakdown show us what they're all about.
Adeem the Artist -- Notes From Inside
Richard Marcus reviews Notes From the Inside, the "biting and insightful" new reckoning of an album from Adeem the Artist.
BERTHA -- Slayin' In The Band Vol. 1
There’s being in a band playing covers, and there’s being in a cover band. Steve Roberts explains how BERTHA: The Grateful Drag lives up to the Dead's brilliance and panache.
Wren Carpenter - Charmed, I'm Sure
Bee Delores proclaims Wren Carpenter "a beautiful force of nature" on their EP of sparkling demos Charmed, I'm Sure.
Boy Golden -- Best of Our Possible Lives
On Best of Our Possible Lives, Boy Golden guides you on an intimate tour of your own psyche: the highs, the lows, and, most importantly, accept it all as part of the price of admission to the best (and only) ride we get to go on.
Ungrateful Little String Band - Tired of Being Relevant
In their new album, Tired of Being Relevant, Minneapolis' Ungrateful Little String Band "unleashes hell right out of the gate," writes Bee Delores.