The first of this week’s bangers is Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams, the first solo record in over a decade from Patterson Hood. The album was born out of a friendship with producer Chris Funk (The Decemberists). The pair would often perform together for fun and, during Hood’s solo tours, made tentative plans to one…
We’ve got six sparklers coming up for release in the next three weeks. In 2011, a near-fatal car crash paralysed Micah P. Hinson’s arms for months. He spent his recovery time listening to some demos he’d made before the crash. This material eventually culminated in Micah P. Hinson And The Nothing, the darkest and most…
We kick off this week with the intoxicating Huffy, which ushers in a bold new chapter for beloved indie heroes We Are Scientists, who are holding nothing back and deliver a welcome shot in the arm for deprived indie disco dancers everywhere. The fresh music on the band’s first album in 3 years is accompanied…
The first of our recommendations this week come from The Lumineers, whose latest, III, is a concept album spanning three generations of a fictitious family known as the Sparks, with each of the three chapters focusing on one main character in the album’s storyline. III is audacious: every note, every syllable, and every moment of…