Deakin feels on startlingly sublime solo debut Sleep Cycle HR Huber-Rodriguez May 1, 2016 Album Review, Reviews Animal Collective’s Deakin (real name Josh Dibb) perhaps comes across as the ‘quiet one’ of the group, a moniker attributed to shy, mysterious members of popular bands since the conception of the band as ...
Andrew Bird delivers expected consistency on Are You Serious HR Huber-Rodriguez April 9, 2016 Album Review “Do you need a reason we should commit treason and bring into this world a son?” Andrew Bird asks on “Valleys of the Young,” the penultimate track on his newest LP, Are You Serious, out last week via ...
Kilo Kish tackles broad sweeping introspection on Reflections in Real Time HR Huber-Rodriguez March 13, 2016 Album Review, Reviews Reflections in Real Time is an intensely personal album that attempts to make sense of the arc traced by one’s own life from the point of view of 25 year-old hip hop artist Kilo Kish, and it is excellent. A...
AnCo exhibits refined palette in Painting With HR Huber-Rodriguez February 24, 2016 Album Review, Reviews Vocal hocketing is a musical technique in which singers share melodies by alternating notes at measure, word or even syllable frequency. I define it here because this technique exists all over the experimental ...