Tim O’Brien of Blood Is a Multi-Dimensional Man
It’s raucous, it’s queer, and it’s uncompromising. Blood’s Tim O’Brien is sticking to his guns. “I won’t change the [band] name for the sake of search engines.”
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JOBS Return with the Tense and Multilayered ‘Soft Sounds’
With Soft Sounds, Brooklyn quartet JOBS continue to guide us out of predictability and into previously unknown musical avenues, lush with possibilities.
Tomato Flower Unleash a Weird, Charming Mix of Indie Pop on ‘Gold Arc’
Baltimore’s Tomato Flower straddle a variety of genres to make something fun and impossible to categorize with ‘Gold Arc’ and its experimental pop.
Black Nash’s Self-Titled Album Is Weird, Catchy Psych-Pop
Fresh out of the Army, Black Nash (aka Jody Smith) holed up at home and made an album full of odd, utterly charming bedroom pop songs.
Godcaster Make the Psych/Funk/Hard Rock Debut of the Year
Godcaster's Long Haired Locusts is a swirling, sloppy mess of guitars, drums, flutes, synths, and apparently whatever else the band had on hand in their Philly basement. It's a highly entertaining and listenable album.
JOBS Make Bizarre and Exhilarating Noise with ‘endless birthdays’
Brooklyn experimental quartet JOBS don't have a conventional musical bone in their body, resulting in a thrilling, typically off-kilter new album, endless birthdays.