I wrote a blog post about one of my favorite songs, The National’s “England,” in honor of the tenth anniversary of High Violet. Read it over at The Fluxy

I’ve been thinking a lot about Sunny Day Real Estate lately. I returned to my old blog the fluxy to write about how their distance from me serves the mystical, ambiguous power of their original run:

Song Diary: Sunny Day Real Estate feels far away

Long Neck’s new World’s Strongest Dog crackles with a fire of self-actualization. Read my review below.

Album Review: Long Neck—”World’s Strongest Dog”

Nnamdï’s BRAT is exciting and brilliant, constantly upping the melodic stakes in unexpected and wonderful ways. You can read my review at the link below.

Album Review: Nnamdï Ogbonnaya – “Brat”

 

 

SAME premiered their new track “Bluish” from Plastic Western and I wrote some words about it. Check that out.

Wrote about the debut album from Empty Country, probably my favorite thing I’ve heard so far this year.

Album Review: Empty Country—”Empty Country”

I wrote about I Can Make a Mess, The World We Know, and the things you can’t help but create over at The Alternative.

The World We Know Turns 10

I wrote some words about Ratboy’s Printer’s Devil, check it out.

I haven’t been diligent about updating this blog, but I have been writing! I usually update Twitter if I’ve got something new, but here are a few things I’ve done in the past year that I wanna share:

Review: Great Grandpa — Four of Arrows

A Conversation With Ace Enders from The Early November

Review: Strange Ranger — Remembering the Rockets

Review: Pedro The Lion — Phoenix

Review: The Get Up Kids — Problems

And I also added to the massive amount of Copeland writing I’ve done over the years with some words about their latest album, Blushing.

More coming, thanks for sticking with me.

 

I spoke to Tigers Jaw about their new album spin. Check it out.