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.
Jessica Pratt, Here in the Pitch
The LA-based indie-folk songwriter’s ghostly yet elegant fourth album is all smoke and light work—like the best noirs of the ’40s and ’50s if they were filmed in the druggy late-’60s.
Dua Lipa, Radical Optimism
The pop star’s soaring vocals are overshadowed by scattershot and overengineered production on her third album, as her team of songwriters’ styles clash more often than they mesh.
Broadcast, Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009
The first of two sets of hazy, unfinished recordings from the cult experimental pop band expected this year explores numerous sonic worlds within its lo-fi, homespun arrangements.
Jeff Terich
The baddest dudes in Hotlanta know how to find the weird wherever they go.
More than anything, “Goths” seems to operate like an extended love letter to the oft-misunderstood subculture.
“The Far Field,” much like Future Islands albums that preceded it, is a deeply romantic album.
Having conquered a variety of genre albums in recent years, the genre this time around is that there isn’t a genre—just a dedication to the sanctity of the music and music alone.
After their strong debut found them playing to passionate crowds, controversy over the Calgary band’s original name caused them to retreat and regroup. Now they’ve returned with a new name and a second debut record that might be darker—and more powerful—than the first.