Xehicalm

I and Love and You is one of the most elegant and beautiful albums I have ever listened to. Where Emotionalism tackled themes of entering adulthood and young love, I and Love and You deals much more with stepping into the role you were destined to play and viewing the world from a more mature perspective.

This record harkens a new era for the Avett Brothers: the introduction of the band’s collaboration with famed music producer Rick Rubin. I believe that from the ‘Rubin Era’, ... read more

This year Olivia Rodrigo finally released a follow-up to SOUR, the album that came out of nowhere and is still hard to fathom how massive it was when it released. GUTS is a solid next step in her career taking what worked in SOUR and amping up the production to create a respectable new record without falling into the “sophomore slump”.

I love this album when it is two main things: packing a real emotional punch with powerful lyrics or doing something usual and out there for ... read more

I am a man who believes it is unfair to criticize something if you have not fully experienced it. You need the complete scope of a project to understand the vision the creator was intending. Take the movie Anchorman for example; at the beginning of the film, I did not care for it in the slightest. I thought it was useless and had absolutely nothing of worth. However, by the time the credits rolled it clicked that that was kind of the point, just a ludicrous and out there comedy that is not ... read more

Appaloosa Bones was easily my most anticipated album of the year. It had been five years since Evening Machines, so I had high hopes that Gregory Alan Isakov had taken the time to craft something truly as ethereal as his earlier works. Now that it has been a few months since the release of the record, was it worth the wait? Well, let’s talk about that.

The album starts out strong with The Fall, Before the Sun, and Appaloosa Bones: the three pre-release singles. It is a great ... read more