‘Fading Frontier’ dresses down Deerhunter’s legacy of fiery avant-garde rock by Chad Radford Fading Frontier is the first Deerhunter album to dress down the group’s legacy of fiery and phantasmagoric avant-garde rock. “Living My Life,” “Breaker,” and “Take Care,” embrace a pop aesthetic that is the antithesis of the bold spirit that established Deerhunter as one of the most intriguing experimental rock acts of the millennium.…
Shawn Mullins dives into edgier, if always melodic, roots terrain by Hal Horowitz It’s easy and only partially accurate to pigeonhole singer/songwriter Shawn Mullins’ first new material in five years as his breakup album. Certainly the oversized cutout heart stuffed into his breast pocket on the cover, along with the self-deprecating title track and sensual, melancholy bluesy “Go and Fall” express that.…
Goes best with incense and salt candles by Gavin Godfrey From the onset of Raury’s proper debut, All We Need, it’s clear the 19-year-old from Stone Mountain has no intention of veering out of his lane as music’s self-proclaimed “Indigo Child.” When he sings, “All we need is love,” in the album’s opener, it’s clear that Raury was born amid syrup-induced trap tales. But All We Need goes best with incense and salt candles rather than blunts and double cups of lean.…
Savannah metal vets refuse to go through the motions. by Bobby Moore Savannah's long-standing sludge-metal mammoth Kylesa has never trudged around the same sonic mire for too long. With the group's latest album, Exhausting Fire (released Oct. 2 via Season of Mist), singer and guitarist duo Phillip Cope and Laura Pleasants have culled their record collections to find inspiration and expand their group's ever-evolving sound.…
