Whenever an established group releases a self-titled album in the middle of their career, it acts as a symbol of rebirth, a new direction, course correction, or perhaps a last gasp.
St. Paul & The Broken Bones’ self-titled release finds them centering their sound and style, as frontman Paul Janeway states, “I think the band in general feels reignited”.
Over their last few releases (2018’s Young Sick Carmella, 2022’s Alien Coast, and 2023’s Angels in Science Fiction) the group has drifted further and further from their retro-soul debut and during the ten new tracks they bring that horn drenched sound back to their core.
The Birmingham, AL-based outfit stayed in state, working with producer Eg White at…
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Sister John have been about for a few years now so it is perhaps no surprise that there is much in the way of maturity to be found in the words and music that make up the fifteen songs of 
The history of experimental musicians from Europe and North America adopting Japanese aesthetics is… patchy. It got especially dodgy in the 1990s when every other electronica dork started flinging random kanji characters on their sleeves, writing soundtracks for imaginary Akira bike races and the like. And there are so, so many ambient producers who reference Zen gardens, minimalist interior design and bamboo flutes, you can’t go into a health spa without knocking over a pile of their CDs.
There’s a thread of trauma running through most of 
Though he announced his retirement in 2018, few were convinced 
…Though Ohio singer-songwriter Mark Allen Scott, who releases music under the moniker 
Flock of Dimes – the solo project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Jenn Wasner – releases her third album, 
Following up their 2024 Grammy-winning 
Australian trio 
…Remastered from the original analog files, the special anniversary release sees a wealth of brand new material including seven unreleased tracks from the album’s multitrack sessions, mixed by Paul Humphreys. The release also comes with two demos, an alternative mix, four never-before-heard songs, plus non-album b-sides and extended or 12” mixes.
After getting back home after touring behind their 2023 album 
…includes two bonus tracks from the original recording sessions: “Dead Armadillo,” co-written with producer Bobby Harlow, and a cover of Neil Young’s “Don’t Let It Bring You Down.”
The guitar-band-remix-album is a scarce phenomenon. Especially in its entirety like this; a few tracks, sure, but an entire track list remixed by thirteen different artists is borderline unheard of in the current state of British guitar music. For Leeds-based quartet 
Groove in the Face of Adversity is Don Was’ very first solo album. The A-list producer, composer, arranger, bassist, radio program host, and Blue Note Records boss co-founded Was (Not Was) with David Weiss, but this is his thing. His Pan Detroit Energy Ensemble is composed of players from in and around the Motor City: saxophonist/flutist Dave McMurray, keyboardist Luis Resto — both were in Was (Not Was) — trombonist Vincent Chandler, drummer Jeff Canaday, trumpeter John Douglas, guitarist Wayne Gerard, percussionist Mahindi Masai, and vocalist Steffanie Christi’an (Inner City vocalist and Kresge fellow). The band’s M.O: “We are on a mission to promulgate the music of our hometown.” Was was approached by Detroit Symphony Jazz Creative Director…
Capturing light is not easy: ask any outdoor photographer. In order to capture the perfect shot, one has to be ready for fragmentary shifts in illumination. In that spirit, 
The trouble with being in two great bands at once is one is usually going to take precedence over the other, which means sometimes the smaller group has to bide their time. Such is the fate of the Autumn Defense, the superb indie pop band led by John Stirratt and Pat Sansone, both of whom are also members of Wilco. Being under the employment of Jeff Tweedy keeps them profitably busy, and after the Autumn Defense issued Fifth in 2014, it took Stirratt and Sansone eleven years to scare up the time to complete their sixth album, 2025’s