Juan's Mini Reviews
Cranky - Everything No Worries! EP:
“A blistering, visceral explosion of post hard-core from this tour-de-force four piece, with jagged angles and melodic sensibilities.”
KT: Beni/ LIYL: Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, At the Drive In
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Hopie Jo - Sky Eyes EP:
“A gentle, breezy meditation on folksy Americana, illuminated in equal parts by golden sunshine, and moonlight on a clear night.”
KT: Blue Sky/ LIYL: Florist, Lomelda, Adrienne Lenker
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Stalagmite - Authentic Antenna EP:
“Formerly making music as a solo artist under the name 'Shankool,' Stalagmite comes through with a six track EP of existential, lowkey drivers.”
KT: Hide/ LIYL: Depeche Mode, The Cure, Interpol
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Prismer - RAMSHACKLE!! EP:
“Emotionally heavy with equal parts dark and beautiful, and brimming with life, we are welcomed by the third EP from local legend, Prismer.”
KT: Fear Interlacing/ LIYL: Burial, Slauson Malone, Death's Dynamic Shroud
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Nodrogolaj - The Dish:
“The electronic wizard drops a surprise full-length filled with loops and textures varying in degrees of fragility and stability.”
KT: Gate/ LIYL: Boards of Canada, Four Tet, Skee Mask
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Cowtooler - Kuhwerkzeuge EP:
“Textured, weird, playful, stunning. Wolfgang serves up some seriously deep grooves and rich ambient atmospheres on this one. In short: it’s tools, but… for COWS.”
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Witches Wedding - Witches Wedding:
“Raw and vibrant, crackling with personality and tone. The sound of Kalamazoo’s house show scene, whats it is and what it constantly strives to be.”
FT: Happy, Wrong, Dead Bird
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Isaac Turner - Let's Play This One For Laughs:
“With 12 tracks sprawling across a 28-minute runtime, Ike crafts a series of vignettes spanning from under one to over four minutes, all combining to form the soundtrack to a movie that may or may not exist.
FT: Venturia’s Doghouse, The Great Sandhill Crane
Lucius Fox - The Death and Life of the Great Lakes:
“Jeremy and Paul craft an engaging, colorful, blistering journey with seamless transitions throughout, written in less-than-ideal circumstances. All the love for this one”
FT: Lake Isle Memorial, Michigan, Huron, Superior, July
“Jimbo and Gordie combine forces once again for a 53-minute journey into the unknown. An atmosphere equal parts ominous and brooding, but also hopeful, like staring at the electric horizon at sunset on a gloomy, cloudy day”
FT: Please Stop Talking About Shri Thanedar, Bubbles the Chimp, Weeper
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