#albumreviews

Delivery- Forever Giving Handshakes (Album Review)

Michael Bless

Nov 30, 2022
3 min

Delivery- Forever Giving Handshakes (Album Review)

On their debut album, Melbourne garage punk outfit, Delivery, sounds like a band that has been playing together for years. In reality, the band didn’t start playing together until 2020. In this short span of time, the unit has been able to assert their prowess as a group with their catchy brand of dusty garage punk. Every member of Delivery is a utility player on this record, you’ll hear the voices of all five band members prominently on this album, three of the five are feat

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Attia Taylor- Space Ghost (Album Review)

Michael Bless

Jul 17, 2022
3 min

Attia Taylor- Space Ghost (Album Review)

Deconstructing what makes us as people who we are is a difficult task. We are each our own individual rhythms, and individual tracks in this album we know as life. For Attia Taylor, the work done on her ambitious record Space Ghost acts as a reflection on her life so far, rediscovering and retexturizing childhood trauma by way of dizzying, dreamlike tracks backed by lush vocals and reverb heavy drums. The overall textures that are created throughout Attia’s first release in a

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Michael Bless

Aug 24, 2021
3 min

Sam Pine- Evergreen (Album Review)

Traversing your early 20’s can be an extremely difficult challenge for many. Caught between college and your first ‘professional’ job, these first few years of full blown independence are almost impossible to figure out. Sam Pine explores these feelings of uncertainty and feeling caught up in his own personal anxieties and the changing tumultuous world around him on the songs that make up his debut album Evergreen. A trendy Bedroom Pop album, Evergreen was crafted entirely fr

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Michael Bless

Aug 4, 2021
4 min

Poise- Vestiges (Album Review)

Grief hits people in a myriad of ways, whether it’s taking time away from the world that surrounds us, or getting stuck into a creative endeavor right away, we all have our own way of dealing with loss. When Lucie Murphy’s father passed away, Lucy got to work writing songs for the album that would eventually become Vestiges. For those unaware, vestiges means a fragment of something that no longer exists. Within the 11 tracks on Poise’s latest record, we see Murphy coping and

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Michael Bless

Jun 28, 2021
3 min

Losers- EP01 (EP Review)

As artists, feeling burnt out with your creative output is something that is all too common. It can be difficult to continue a project for many people when they feel this way, especially when you are in a musical group. In 2016, Losers released the album How To Ruin Other People’s Futures to critical acclaim. The group had ideas, but didn’t know where to go with them. Feeling creatively jaded, one of the members of the group, Tom Bellamy attended Barcelona’s fantastic music f

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Smol Data- Inconvenience Store (Album Review)

Michael Bless

May 20, 2021
3 min

Smol Data- Inconvenience Store (Album Review)

Being a part of a community of like minded people is great, but what happens when you grow up and realize that there is more to life and your creativity that this community can’t give you? Hailing from Long Island, and growing up in the music and arts scene there, Karah Goldstein, or Smol Data, asks this question and many other questions like it on her new record Inconvenience Store. Throughout the course of half an hour, Smol Data treats listeners to a tale as old as time, t

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Dobbeltgjenger- Smooth Failing (Album Review)

Michael Bless

Apr 8, 2021
3 min

Dobbeltgjenger- Smooth Failing (Album Review)

Some of the most formative moments of my musical taste have come by way of playing sport video games when I was younger. I still play some of these songs and listen to them on repeat to this day. I would spend hours playing games like FIFA and Madden, not because I loved the gameplay, but because I was so entranced by the musical selections in these menus. The music I enjoy now is very much informed by my love of the tracks that graced these games in the mid 2000’s and the ea

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Graham Hunt- Painting Over Mold (Album Review)

Michael Bless

Mar 10, 2021
3 min

Graham Hunt- Painting Over Mold (Album Review)

Painting Over Mold by Graham Hunt feels like putting on a blanket that you’ve had in your attic for years, but forgotten all about. It feels like something that you’ve interacted with before, but know you haven’t. Graham has a way of connecting his music to people unlike any musician that I have seen before. There is a sense of familiarity, but yet uncertainty throughout the entirety of Painting Over Mold that I’m not sure anyone else could possibly recreate. The Madison base

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Quality Used Cars- Good Days/ Bad Days (Album Review)

Michael Bless

Feb 22, 2021
3 min

Quality Used Cars- Good Days/ Bad Days (Album Review)

For many artists, attempting to traverse unknown ground can be a big creative challenge that some give a thought to, but never act upon it because they are too scared or unconfident. For Frances Tait, this is not the case. Frances has been an active member of Melbourne’s rich music scene, playing in psychedelic surf rock groups, jazz bands, and blues groups. With his new project, Quality Used Cars, he conquers a new sound, and fronts a more straightforward singer/ songwriter

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The Big Easy- A Long Year (Album Review)

Michael Bless

Oct 31, 2020
3 min

The Big Easy- A Long Year (Album Review)

When we look back at the year 2020, it is safe to say that there will always be one thing that immediately jumps into everyone's head. The Coronavirus pandemic has affected almost everyone in some shape, and has caused some people great depression. It is safe to say that this year has challenged everyone in some way. We often forget to think about the people around us though and how they are dealing with the world as we know it. For The Big Easy vocalist and guitarist, Steven

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Michael Bless

Sep 30, 2020
4 min

Pons- Intellect (Album Review)

Mind transforming experiences are hard to come by. On Intellect, Vermont based post-punk band, Pons promises an experience that is almost seemingly connected to the brain. It is written all over the identity of the band, as their name is taken from a part of the brain. The album cover features brains. The album title is Intellect, which again is another term closely associated with the brain. Will you feel a grand transformation after listening to this record? In some way, ma

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Sweeping Promises- Hunger For A Way Out (Review)

Michael Bless

Aug 23, 2020
3 min

Sweeping Promises- Hunger For A Way Out (Review)

Not many releases quite sound like a long lost relic of the past quite like Hunger For A Way Out by Sweeping Promises. This record takes everything that was fun and exciting about the beginnings of the New Wave movement from the late 70’s and early 80’s and really run with it on this new record. While not reinventing the genre in any way, Sweeping Promises sound like a band who was right at the forefront of a new sound and time travel to 2020 to bless our ears with their take

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