All Music Gives Mary Halvorson A Four-Star Review
According to the All Music Guide, “Mary Halvorson’s compositions on Cloudward are impressive. She accounts for individual players’ strengths as soloists while counting on them as ensemble players. She grafts and threads striated post-bop harmony, edgeless dissonance, and kinetic drama simultaneously, then blurs the edges expressionistically in crafting a detailed, multivalent, resonant, deeply satisfying whole from seemingly disparate […]
New Music From Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (SGM), the gloriously uncategorizable American band, has regrouped after 13 years to complete a fourth studio album titled Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being. Due on February 23, it will be the very first release of AVANT NIGHT – a new imprint headed by Nick Ohler and facilitated by Joyful Noise Recordings. Originating in Oakland, California, the […]
Relix Highlights Mary Halvorson’s Collaborators In Its Review Of Cloudward
In its recent overview of Mary Halvorson’s Cloudward, Relix notes that “It’s not until about halfway through Cloudward (Nonesuch), the second album by her band Amaryllis, that Mary Halvorson unleashes the gnarly, distorted potential lying in her signature array of pedals and DL4 Delay Modeler. Until “Desiderata,” the guitarist-composer has played a subtler, more enmeshed role amid this exhilarating lineup […]
Under The Radar Shares Izzy Savides’ “Autumn In Atlantis” Video
Under The Radar recently premiered “Autumn In Atlantis,” one of the standout tracks on Izzy Savides‘ debut EP Potato World. “After the stacked harmonies, veering chord progressions, and grunge guitars of ‘Prison in the Suburbs,’ ‘Autumn in Atlantis’ finds Savides instead settling into a more psychedelic mode, guided by layered textures and a hypnotic, pulsing bassline. The track […]
Jazz Trail Calls Mary Halvorson’s New LP “Delightfully Unpredictable”
Jazz Trail recently reviewed Mary Halvorson‘s new release Cloudward, writing that “while this collection exudes a warmer and more accessible vibe compared to Amaryllis and Belladonna, it remains delightfully unpredictable, fearlessly embracing chances without hesitation or defensiveness… For anyone harboring doubts about Halvorson’s compositional prowess, Cloudward stands as compelling evidence. Here, she rides high waves of inspiration alongside peers that understand her advanced musical […]
Izzy Savides Chats With I Dream Of Vinyl
Izzy Savides, whose Potato World EP is at radio now, recently spoke to I Dream of Vinyl about the new release and more. Asked about influences, they said, “Fiona Apple, Radiohead, P-Funk, Amy Winehouse, Remi Wolf, Billie Eilish, System of a Down, Caroline Rose, Mamalarky and Orion Sun have had a really big impact on me, but the list is honestly so […]
New Music From Torn Boys
1983, the first-ever release from Stockton, California’s Torn Boys, the now legendary band featuring Jeffrey Clark, Kelly Foley, Duncan Atkinson, and a 19 year-old Grant-Lee Phillips, is set to be released in 2024 by Independent Project Records. The comprehensive archival ten-track set of rare, unreleased studio and live tracks documents the short but eventful life of Torn Boys, a group […]
The Quietus Raves About Cloudward, Mary Halvorson’s “Upbeat, Curious, and Inquisitive” New LP
The Quietus is out with a loving review of Cloudward, the new LP from Mary Halvorson. “Upbeat, curious, and inquisitive,” the site’s Lottie Brazier writes, “Cloudward makes for a great city walking album. It strikes the perfect balance between being jazz that’s not too impenetrable, while also being full of interesting surprises (primarily in terms of the language of Halvorson’s own […]
Metal Sucks Shares The “Weird” Music Of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Metal Sucks offers the following vital information about Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: “If you’ve never hear of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, there’s one thing to know about ’em — they’re weird. Full stop. And with the release of their latest single, they keep that energy going with ‘Burn Into Light.’” Full stop, y’all. Weird. Thanks as always to Metal […]
Buffablog Shares Izzy Savides’ “Prison In The Suburbs”
Buffablog likes “Prison In The Suburbs,” one of the standout tracks on Izzy Savides’ new EP Potato World, which is at radio now. “Her boundless creativity, versatile talents for instruments, and soul-baring songwriting is on display on the newly released single, ‘Prison in the Suburbs.’ Izzy opens with a melody that stems from Bossa Nova hit […]
Post Genre Hails Mary Halvorson’s “Complex, Innovative Edge”
About Mary Halvorson, Post Genre writes, “The guitarist’s compositions have a complex, innovative edge, and Cloudward is more evidence as to why she deserves all the acclaim that comes her way… This album is a stellar showcase of forward-thinking jazz – the type of music that keeps the genre fresh.” Read the full review, which dives into several […]
Raven Sings The Praises Of Cactus Lee’s Caravan
Raven Sings The Blues calls Caravan, by Cactus Lee, “a studio fresh album that’s got one foot in the Americana crate and another in the country coffers. Produced again by Kyle Crusham, the record sidles into a ‘70s tangle of roots, letting the Rhodes run rampant, doused in the glow of an afternoon sun… Dehan seems intent on finding […]
New Music From Izzy Savides
Songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Izzy Savides has shared their eclectic debut EP Potato World, a dynamic work touching on alternative, R&B, pop, and grunge. Created at Detroit’s 54 Sound, where Eminem famously made many of his records, the set showcases Savides’ multi-instrumentalist talent and songwriting prowess at an incredibly young age. At 18, Savides can sing, produce, […]
Pitchfork Recommends Mary Halvorson’s Cloudward, Which Hit #6 At NACC Jazz This Week and Debuted on the Top 200
In a recent 7.8 review of Mary Halvorson‘s Cloudward, Pitchfork describes the avant-garde guitarist by explaining that “Halvorson’s guitar tone contains within it a microcosm of her entire practice as a composer and bandleader. She gives the impression, through her ingenious use of a particular delay pedal, that her instrument is inhabiting two states of matter at once, or […]
It’s Psychedelic Baby Shares The Video For Sleepytime Gorilla Museum’s “Hush Hush”
It’s Psychedelic Baby recently premiered the video for “Hush Hush,” one of three advance tracks from Sleepytime Gorilla Museum‘s upcoming fourth full length, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being, set for release on February 23. The site has a quote from bandmember Carla Kihlstedt, who says, “‘Hush, Hush’ is a celebration of dusk, when angels and demons […]
Bandcamp Notes the “Elasticity, Presence, and Imagination” of Mary Halvorson’s Band
Bandcamp Daily recently published an Album of the Day feature on Cloudward, Mary Halvorson‘s new album with her sextet Amaryllis, featuring trumpeter Adam O’Farrill, trombonist Jacob Garchik, vibraphonist Patricia Brennan, drummer Tomas Fujiwara, and bassist Nick Dunston. According to the site, “Halvorson’s second album with the sextet includes plenty of indelible guitar playing, but it’s her astonishing growth as a composer and arranger that distinguishes the […]
Austin Chronicle Shares Cactus Lee’s Origin Story
Cactus Lee is at radio now with Caravan, which cracked the NACC Top 200 last week. The album has been generating a buzz because of its thoughtful, evocative lyrics and smooth, classic-sounding arrangements. Fans who want to learn more about Kevin Dehan, the man behind the band, should go back to an Austin Chronicle interview from last year. In it, […]
New Music From Bobby Bazini
Québecois artist Bobby Bazini has released a new remix of “Waterfallin’,” one of the highlights from his 2023 LP Pearl. About that album, Atwood Magazine wrote, “Cinematic, soulful, and smoldering, Pearl aches with heated passion and raw vulnerability as Bobby Bazini finds clarity and catharsis, making peace with his demons and rediscovering himself on a deeply intimate, yet undeniably universal […]
Brooklyn Vegan Covers Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Brooklyn Vegan recently announced that “avant-rock weirdos Sleepytime Gorilla Museum are back and set to release their first album in 17 years… Lead single ‘Salamander in Two Worlds’ is as strange and uncategorizable as you’d expect from SGM.” Listen here. “Salamander In Two Worlds” is one of three advance tracks from Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being, set […]
Jazzwise Digs The “Often Complex, Yet Ever-Accessible Music” Of Mary Halvorson
Jazzwise is out with a review of Cloudward, the new release from Mary Halvorson. The site writes, “Halvorson plays in a dizzying array of set ups. So, it’s a pleasure to see how she’s maintained and nurtured the band that so illuminated 2022’s extraordinary Amaryllis. While the writing for that sextet occurred in the thrall of Covid lockdowns, Cloudward marks […]
