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This Canadian post-punk band oozes a trance-inducing album that’s got a gentle little spook to it. Unlike some trances that invite you into comfort and harmony, Ought creates a world with a bit of grit as it dives into itself calmly saying “wash away my body I don’t need it” and that you can order your liberation online. The album confused the hell out of my mind as it seamlessly mends indie bedroom pop and scratchy reverb. Very impressive and every listen adds value to the unique sounds, this definitely appreciates in value and I sure as hell appreciated its value. Great review! Here’s “Disgraced in America” iz a good one folks

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This album is awesome. It loosely tells the story of a queer duo’s road trip as they fight the system and flee across the country. Furman has a crazy knack for storytelling within an album. With gravel-like vocals, mesmerizing drum lines, occasional horn solos, and a lead singer claiming to be “babbling on in exile,” this album is a shameless, defiant escape from heteronormative expectation. And I love it! It’s kind of like Springsteen’s Born To Run if Springsteen were queer and not America’s one and only patriarch. Also, this album has some Wolf Parade vibes which makes me love it all the more. I especially recommend tracks 1 & 7 & 9 (“Love You So Bad”). Thanks Tess! One of the best albums of the year if i do say so myself

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Gardner: Robert Earl Thomas – Another Age

Robert Earl Thomas is known as the guitarist for indie rock group Widowspeak, and is a pro at hazy, lilting guitar melodies that aren’t too fast or too slow, but somewhere in the middle that feels just right. He brings his talents as a songwriter and a performer to his first solo release. This album is relaxed, reflective, and pleasantly jangly, a spacey foot tapper. Thomas’s voice is a bit airey, not so much detached as tired ala The Smiths. Additionally, there’s a skillfully evocative, ambient aspect to this album that reminds me of the slower War on Drugs songs. Versatile and tasteful while sufficiently different from his work with Widowspeak, you won’t regret listening to the title track and highlights “What Am I Gonna Do” and “I Remember”. A truly soothing soft indie rock release for your week.

Shannon and the Clams’, in my opinion, best release thus far has the expertly produced sound of a remastered album from the 1950s. Thanks to Dan Auerbach, who took them under his wing for dis, derr 5th studio album. The album starts off FUERTE with a toucher & feeler of a song: “The Boy”. “if you ever change your mind//touch me and then teach me how to cry” — they sing, with a dingly little strummage on the guitar, harking back to the same epoch of guitar strummage as the Growlers do. Shannon shares vocal duties with high-profile clam Cody Blanchard, and their two sounds go together so well that sometimes you don’t notice the vocalist has changed. The songs on this album display the day-to-day struggles of A Dude striving for fredum,hapinis,luv,et cetera–positing wonderfully that normal folks have a lot of drama, emotion, love, bitterness, in their erry day lives. and it’s so real. and it is BeAuTiFuLL! If I were to complain (and i am not gonna complain but if i were gunna) I would say that these songs are 2 short, and they seem to come to an artificial close. they were 2 yung to die! let em roll, Dan… weak review for a FUERTE album

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