new release Archive
28 Jan 2024
Album Review: David Greenberger & the Huckleberries – Universal Preservation
David Greenberger is a most singular artist. His music features his spoken-word vocals, backed by spare, tuneful instrumentation. This set is based on conversations Greenberger had with residents of two […]
27 Jan 2024
Album Review: David Microwave Javelosa – Cyber Steam Cabaret
Pick up this record and give it a quick look; you’ll be forgiven if you mistake it for Crosby Stills Nash & Young’s Déjà Vu. The cover art explicitly aims […]
21 Jan 2024
Album Review: Two Faces West – Postcards From Lonely Places
As a direct result of the manner in which it was made, Two Faces West’s debut album is – in the words of the group – “a stylistic mess.” The […]
20 Jan 2024
Album Review: Frank Clare – Admiratio Magna
One man’s new age music is another’s neoclassical. On his debut release, pianist and composer Frank Clare aims for the latter. The crystalline and unadorned piano textures that grace this […]
19 Jan 2024
Album Review: Kula Shaker – Natural Magick
With a swirling, heady and supercharged approach, Kula Shaker is back. Darlings of the ‘90s Britpop scene, the group led by Crispian Mills made some of the most appealing music […]
13 Jan 2024
Album Review: The Ophelias — Bare Bodkin
From a musical perspective, psychedelia’s heyday was the period between the mid- and late 1960s. The style’s influence, however, has endured since then in the form of various artists’ reinterpretation […]
07 Jan 2024
Album Review: Dolph Chaney – Mug
While its original heyday was in the early ‘70s, power pop went through something of a renaissance in the 1990s. Artists as diverse as Michael Penn, Greenberry Woods, Matthew Sweet, […]
30 Dec 2023
Album Review: After Ours – Music for Cats
One of the inescapable realities of being a music critic is that one only has the opportunity to cover that which one hears. And so – despite the most valiant […]
27 Dec 2023
Musoscribe’s Best of 2023: New Releases
As I often say, the canard that “there’s no good music today” is just that: 2023 has brought with it some great music. One often needs to look hard to […]
23 Dec 2023
Album Review: Tu-Ner – T-1 Contact Information
If you’re seeking compelling and challenging music, in and around the orbit of King Crimson is a very reliable place to begin your search. The members, former members, friends and […]