With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.
Babehoven, Water’s Here in You
Maya Bon and Ryan Albert’s second LP of lush indie-folk is warm and inviting as ever, though the album’s impressionistic storytelling tends to keep the listener at arm’s length.
Maria Chiara Argirò, Closer
The London-based art-pop composer shifts into more polished electronic club music territory on her third solo LP as we hear her wrestle with a sense of connection.
METZ, Up on Gravity Hill
The Toronto noise-punks’ fifth LP sees their familiarly angular guitars working through melodies that range from ear-sweetening to atonal, furthering the mystery that is the band METZ.
Jacob Uitti
Joe Talbot tells us how he’d spend his last day on earth while discussing his band’s fourth LP.
The Nashville-based songwriter tells us about the personal direction of her new album and the “self-education” detailed on the record’s latest single.
The virtuosic Mexican guitar duo have created a sonic stage play in three acts with three unique covers.
The Seattle rockers tell us about the new visual ahead of the track’s placement on an episode of ABC’s “Rebel” tonight.
This reissue is two albums at once, ranging in creative impact from Van Etten’s ghostly harmonies to IDLES’ industrial wallop.