Articles by Valerie E. Polichar
Three Hares is lovely and listenable, with many pleasing details. It’s almost too pretty to feel heartfelt, but fans of sweet folk-pop will find much to enjoy.
His Name Is Alive’s trademark blend of grunge and gauze, darkness and shimmering light, is just as extraordinary the second time around.
If not quite the album she is capable of, Before the Lights Go Out demonstrates that Yeager is a solid pop singer/songwriter, with a yearning-tinged voice and a modern sensibility.
With Robert Calvert Through His Work, Timothy Forster has produced the first exhaustive analysis of Robert Calvert’s extraordinary work for Hawkwind, seating it authoritatively within its sociopolitical and cultural milieu.
Avi C. Engel’s Too Many Souls is mesmerising and otherworldly, existing somewhere in the dream state between memory and prophecy: a visit there will leave the listener quietly transformed.
The album lives — compellingly, for those of us who embrace interstitial auditory spaces —between ambient texture and noise celebration.
At its best, Sincere Insanity sews disparate sounds into a circle, bringing the listener back to themselves, as if to say — either about Often the Thinker or about any of us — “I contain multitudes”.
With I Want You to Have This, Taco Johnathan takes the punk genre by the throat and slyly subverts it.
Cool all over: the latest album from Beauty in Chaos is their strongest and most consistent to date.
Beautifully shadowy and complex, the superb Uspeh leaves the listener with a fierce sense of longing for something always just out of reach.















