Even those already aware of what The Comet Is Coming are capable of the tightness, intuitiveness and further pushing of boundaries the trio exhibit here can be a (pleasant) surprise.

Going through a specific counterbalancing (musical) process, it is Vasquez and his listeners that come out on top.

Tawni Bias nails it with both his music and the description of it. And yes, it is its unexpected elements that actually do make it healing.

Uygur uses this introductory Electric Treatment Free EP as a sort of a teaser for (greater?) things to come, without overstaying his welcome.

Maybe his previous projects took time, but now that 1st Base Runner has come up with this album, he actually turns it into a home run.

Syncretist as the title actually perfectly describes Artifiseer’s album – it “involves the merging or assimilation of several originally discrete traditions”. In this case musical traditions.

Sometimes, it matters not whether it’s been done before, just that it can be done again and done better. Indie-rock bands are ten-a-penny these days: some an unfortunate by-product of the ‘landfill indie’ movement that heralded the supposed ‘death of g …