The new Wild Nothing EP, Empty Estate, takes a minute of getting used to. It’s seven songs recorded in ten days, and it translates that feeling of being swept up rather quickly before regaining some footing in the familiar. Here we have Jack Tatum experimenting with some new sounds while remarking on how he felt in a very specific time period, after blowing up a good deal, touring extensively, and then finally having time to relax. These songs are a regrouping…

Synesthesia is defined as “The production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body” and couldn’t be a better title for Hands’ debut full-length. This album has been a long time coming for Geoffrey Halliday and Ryan Sweeney, who began playing music together in Philadelphia while attending high school. In 2007, the duo moved across country to Los Angeles, where they met Sean Hess and…

All good things must come to an end, and a few years ago, the lo-fi indie rock project, Mellowdrone, parted ways to their fans dismay. But when one door closes, another opens up, and after spending some time pondering if he even wanted to make music anymore, the group’s former bassist/vocalist Jonathan Bates discovered the freedom of making music digitally after buying his friend Alessandro Cortini’s (Nine Inch Nails) laptop. Shortly thereafter, Big Black Delta was born. Aside from a…

Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson made an album together. Weird, right?  After a year of working on the record, the duo released Hokey Fright on Rhymesayers Entertainment under the name The Uncluded. In the first moments the abrasive tonnage of Aesop Rock, the moniker of Ian Matthias Bavitz, coupled with the excessively cute and intentionally juvenile sounds of Kimya Dawson is a bit jarring. Actually, in the last moments and the middle moments it’s a bit jarring as well. The Uncluded has, however, made some…