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The Arrow, he’s aided by famed R.E.M. producers, Let’s Active’s Mitch Easter, who both mixed. Though Foster’s expressive, robust voice still recalls Tom Petty, his earlier Americana leanings are abandoned. The EP’s uplifting, cinematic title track – presented in two equally striking mixes, it was written in response to the global Black Lives Matter protests last summer following George Floyd’s senseless and cruel murder – and the resonant, acoustic “When Was the Last Time,” elicit Snow Patrol, Band of Horses, and One Eskimo alterna-rock, while “Tell Somebody” (with...

Peculiar Red, The Galaxy of Howling Dogs, and Spider Poets) since starting in 1976, but I first heard him on his “quirky, unpredictable” 17-song 2008 solo album, Death of the Avant Garde, which I reviewed in issue 63 (two mini-LPs, Believe and Zombification doesn’t include last year’s seven-minute, Donald Trump-decrying single “Cloud Paper Tree,” the song’s jittery, unnerving freak-folk, swamp-blues, and psych-rock vibe continues. Throughout, Oliver flails and massages his contorted, misshapen acoustic ( The New Dylans’ Jim Reilley adds bass on four), while his distress...

Josh Rawson (AKA Christmas Clapton), former bassist of folk-rockers The Felice Brothers; this debut was recorded by him in his Philmont, NY bedroom over three years while working various odd jobs. Rawson’s shadowy, languid music can be described as gothic folk, with delicately massaged guitars combined with glacial and carnivalesque synths, while his tremulous, drowsy baritone summons Scott Walker, Rufus Wainwright, and Jeremy Enigk (and, on the acoustic, recorded live “Raptors,” a groggier Elliott Smith). Perhaps inspired by renowned, erudite poet John Ashbery (1927-2017), who lived...

4 Ft. Ramona (he’s also been in The Buckets, Acme Band, and Lava), for something drastically more hushed. Brisbois’s bio compares his music to Wilco and R.E.M., and you can indeed detect traces of Jeff Tweedy in his bucolic, reassuring drawl, while the mandolin-flecked “A Better Animal” and gentle, twangy “Take Me to the Sun” evoke R.E.M.’s “The Wrong Child” and “E-Bow the Letter,” respectively. But you’ll also hear Neil Halstead and Grant McLennan on the Low/East River Pipe-conjuring beauties “Not Her” and “I Feel Alright.” Whether he’s reimagining one of...

Nick DiPillo, these Brooklyn shoegazers are pared down to their core duo of Ian Carpenter (vocals/guitars) and Rachel Fischer (drums) for this debut full-length. Wilds’ four pre-LP singles demonstrate the group’s range: faster numbers like the bright, glistening “Anterograde” and coarser, punk-edged “Glower” blend Wild Nothing and DIIV with Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Black Tambourine, while the more leisurely “Billows” and “Depth Charge” combine the floating, ethereal waft of Slowdive, Breathless and Lanterna with the majestic, speakers-shredding blast of Catherin...