As any of Montreal devotée knows, Kevin Barnes has long been known to make diaristic and compelling hay out of chronicling the unfiltered nuances of his personal life. As the long-running musical project enters its 30th year of existence, Barnes has remained true to form, continuing to evolve while navigating the murkiest waters life has to offer.
Emerging out of great personal upheaval in Barnes’s life, aethermead, of Montreal’s 20th album, recalls the beauty-in-the-breakdown immediacy of Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? mixed with the garage-y jangle of Lousy With Sylvanbriar and Cherry Peel’s homespun intimacy-but, remember, the last band that you’ll ever hear truly repeat themselves is of Montreal.
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…includes two previously unreleased songs “Leave Overjoyed” and “Something Drive”.
Arriving ten years after the fun-loving indie rockers released their debut EP in 2015, the self-produced IRON is Post Animal‘s fourth studio album and their first to feature Joe Keery — aka Stranger Things’ Steve Harrington — since their 2018 full-length debut. IRON also saw all six of them gathering in person in the studio after operating remotely for a few years, with several other members besides Keery having relocated away from their base of Chicago. These reunions seem significant on an album that is not only named for the friends’ connection but proves to be their most sentimental release yet, with topics like friendship, loss, and aging surfacing on many of…
Before the phrase Adventure Club became the title of Laura Jane Grace’s electrifying and affirming new album, it was the name for her gaggle of adventurous friends in Greece. In the summer of 2024, Grace joined an artist residency program in Athens, embedding with Greek punk rockers there while she wrote songs about the sordid trials of her life and world-sobriety, autocracy, identity. By night, this new pickup band, including Grace’s wife and collaborator, Paris Campbell Grace, would often play and record. But by day, they’d explore the ancient and beautiful landscape and the city’s vibrant culture. They dove from beaches nestled in seaside caves into the Aegean and swam with sea turtles. They submitted to tourism, seeing the Parthenon and Epidaurus and breaking…