Margo Price, "This Town Gets Around" This album, Midwest Farmer's Daughter, came out in 2016 on Jack White's label, and is very much a throwback. It wears its inspiration on its sleeve, with Loretta Lynn's influence heard everywhere in the music and of course the...
Floor, "Find Away" In some ways, there's some real similarities between My Bloody Valentine and Floor. Both use a ton of guitar to sometimes disorienting effect, but leaven them with vocals that are kind of at odds with the overall tone. MBV uses dream-like vocals,...
The Meters, "Funky Miracle" Mostly, when we get a funk track on here, I just pull the textual equivalent of a stink face. "Goddamn," I'll say, or "holy shit" or some other incoherent blurt. It conveys nothing about the music other than my elemental appreciation...
Still on that train! Merle Haggard, "Go Home" Well, I certainly like to kick things off with a story about how a guy's racist friends broke up his relationship. Just some real cheerful shit here! The Coup, "Me And Jesus the Pimp In a '79...
WE'RE BACK AT IT! HIT IT, PLEXASAURUS REX! Baroness, "Rays on Pinion" This is how the first Baroness album opens up. While they're usually grouped with metal, and in particular often brought up in the same breath as Mastodon, they're not really the same thing....
