The song was inspired by an encounter with a native Brazilian fox called, “Raposinha do Cerrado” // From his upcoming LP Som das Luzis arriving December 6th from OAR.

“Earlier this year Swiss septet L’Eclair released Sauropoda, a five track lp cut during a 48 hour recording session in the Alps. Both it and its predecessor (the Polymood lp, 2018) have found a simpatico fit stateside, via Brooklyn based Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records, and are presently supporting the aforementioned Maston on tour.” Listen HERE!

“In the new documentary Strange Negotiations, which shares its title with Bazan’s 2011 album, filmmaker Brandon Vedder follows Bazan beginning shortly before the 2016 election and continuing into 2017. That period spans a tour in which Bazan plays house concerts, confesses his difficulties with fatherhood, talks with fans — many of whom are navigating their own challenging relationship with faith — and grapples, especially, with the mounting evidence during the 2016 presidential election that assumptions he still held about American evangelical Christians were wrong.“ More HERE

“Despite the mundane repetition and dreary emotional turmoil of the life it documents, Strange Negotiations is a vivid, engaging film. On a purely visual level, it’s gorgeous; Vedder intersperses his front-seat closeups of Bazan with truly breathtaking panoramic landscape footage. The portrait of Bazan within what he and Vedder call the “fever dream” of solo touring is equally evocative.“ Read more HERE

“It is, above all else, a beautiful record, one where silence and noise are used with grace and certainty. The characters of When I say to you Black Lightning may be struggling but, in the end, they are all moving forward, and Common Holly’s delicate touch is enough to give us all hope.” Full review HERE!

Listen HERE. Emily Yacina’s new album, Remember the Silver is out December 6th. 

The latest takes every incarnation that Valentine has inhabited over his years and throws ‘em in the blender, but don’t go thinking this is a hodge-podge, unfocused affair. MV grinds those sounds down smooth and viscous – melding psychedelic folk, with electronic swamp gas and lighting it on fire with the frantic freak foam of brain-bending guitar.” HERE 

“Endless Fantasy was predicated on a slapdash marriage of power-pop and vintage video game palettes, and while the premise remains, [USA] feels more purposeful and less hedonistic. The previous album’s neon-soaked aesthetic is replaced by a more refined synthesis of those same musical influences, capable of capturing anxiety as well as joy.” Read more HERE

“The dynamism of the record may never really elevate beyond the chilled out introspection of its writing but it’s an incredibly rewarding listen as we begin to batten down the hatches and retreat into hibernation mode because here is an album that will keep you warm on the coldest of nights.“ Read the full review HERE - Out now on Mama Bird Recording Co!