7715, Encino EP
Ace of Cups, Sing Your Dreams
American Authors, Counting Down EP – alt rockers, the new single ain’t bad
The Archaeas, The Archaeas
Ava Max, Heaven & Hell – a crazy ex-gf vibe for disco fiends
Bear’s Den & Paul Frith, Fragments
Blake Aaron, Color and Passion
Body Double, Milk Fed
Bright Light Bright Light, Fun City
Butcher Brown, #KingButch
Color Fields, Pendulum EP
Cults, Host
Danny Newcomb, Mackerel Sky
Deradoorian, Find the Sun – give her this, it will be better than her former band, Dirty Projectors
Dig Nitty, Reverse of Mastery
Eivør, Segl
Elderbrook, Why Do We Shake In The Cold?
Fenne Lily, Breach
Garrett Owen, Quiet Lives
Gus Dapperton, Orca
Hey Elbow, We Three
Ian Wayne, Risking Illness
Iress, Flaw
Jealous of the Birds, Peninsula
Joan Osborne, Trouble and Strife – in theory, why shouldn’t Joan have a career as a blues singer, in practise she shoulda packed it in after Prince covered her.
Joe Wong, Nite Creatures
Joshua Speers, Summerland EP
Keith Urban, The Speed of Now Part 1 – the last time I remember being blown away by Keith Urban was when me and my friend Lisa saw him at the Highline. Keith popster doesn’t do it. Having said that, there is at least one goodie on the album…
Killer Whale, Tastes Like Yesterday
Kingdom, Neurofire
Liz Longley, Funeral For My Past
Luca Fogale, Nothing Is Lost
Luke Wild, Easier To Lie EP
Lumiere, Phases
Mad Wave, Instant Nostalgia – Side A
Matt Moran Trio, Return Trip
MAX, Colour Vision – Max is gonna break soon as a big pop star, wait and see…
Mines Falls, Mines Falls
Neil Young, The Times EP
OSees, Protean Threat
Peter Bibby, Marge
Peter Hess Quartet, Present Company
Photo Ops, Pure At Heart
Ran Blake & Christine Correa, When Soft Rains Fall
Ran Blake & Frank Carlberg, Gray Moon
Ryan Hamilton & the Harlequin Ghosts, Nowhere To Go But Everywhere
Sarah Davachi, Cantus, Descant
Saunder Jurriaans, Beasts
The Savants of Soul, The Savants of Soul
Semisonic, You’re Not Alone EP – twenty years later…
Skofee, Polished EP
Sly5thAve, What It Is
Spencer Zahn, Sunday Painter
Takuya Kuroda, Fly Moon Die Soon
Tobin Sprout, Empty Horses
Winnetka Bowling League, Congratulations EP
Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Tea For Tillerman 2 – I haven’t been crazy about the re-recordings so far though the last one, “Father And Son” ain’t bad at all… I am real interested in how the rest sounds – MOST ANTICIPATED OF THE WEEK
Ziggy Marley, More Family Time