Mimicking Birds’ singer/songwriter Nate Lacy is broadening his horizons. And then shrinking them back down to microscopic levels. With the band’s immersive and textural new album Layers of Us (released...
Read MoreFrom overgrown houses in north Oakland, Trails and Ways make guitar pop, thick with warm noise, driving beats, four voices, and the open chords of bossa nova. Take college commune...
Read MoreMariska… sounds like a fully formed talent throughout It’s All Okay. Mariska’s quavering understated tenor recalls Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan, and he appears to possess a similarly eclectic muse,...
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