Dark Water Sound

DAMN – Kendrick Lamar

After 2015’s release of To Pimp a Butterfly, you may have asked yourself ‘Why would Kendrick Lamar need to release anything ever again?’, ‘Can anything be this good?’ or ‘Why… Read More

Folk, Indie

With a hint of bottle-up punk-like angst, folk-esque acoustics, and hand-clapping soul, Kevin Morby’s 2017 release City Music is as classic indie rock as classic indie rock can get. Soaking… Read More

Folk, Indie

Capacity – Big Thief

A starkly somber and humanizing reminder of the feckless struggle between yin and yang, man and woman, child and adult, and body and society. And without the slightest sense of… Read More

Hip-Hop

Run The Jewels 3 – Run The Jewels

The baddest duo in hip-hop know a thing or two about the inner workings of the world, both artistically and socially. They don’t mess with things that don’t need to… Read More

Rock

Visions of a Life – Wolf Alice

Dark and demonic, spacey and airy, and poppy and carefree, Wolf Alice’s follow up to 2015’s My Love Is Cool tests the boundaries that were considered anything and everything under… Read More

Alternative, Rock

Death Song – The Black Angels

For a group of demonic missionaries (after all, their name is the The Black Angels), they sure know how to conjure the inner-psychedelic savage out of every listener. Eerie and… Read More

Alternative, Psychedelic, Rock, World

Flying Microtonal Banana & others – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

To say the least, 2017 was a big year for King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, if not the year. Yes, it’s an understated question: how did they do it?… Read More

2017: Top Releases

Lotta Sea Lice – Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile

City Music – Kevin Morby

Harmony of Difference – Kamasi Washington

Woodstock – Portugal. The Man

A Deeper Understanding – The War On Drugs

Masseduction – St. Vincent

Capacity – Big Thief

DAMN – Kendrick Lamar

Elwan – Tinariwen

Masseduction – St. Vincent

Colors – Beck

As You Were – Liam Gallagher