Album of the Week

It began with admiration.

Animal Collective’s Panda Bear is my favorite solo Animal but both the band and the Bear remind me of, among other things, the Beach Boys. Mexico’s Tony Gallardo’s Abizzmo, his first album as ANSIEDAD1000, reminds me of all three albeit farther out.

I’ve always been genre fluid.

How’d I miss this?

We first visited Polish guitarist Raphael Rogiński and his album Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes back in 2024.

You know how some late 1960’s jazz blasted a big jolt of noise at the beginning of the record? And others from the same period like The Peter Brötzmann Octet were all blast on Machine Gun?

Poetry is not everyone’s cup of tea.

When it comes to music and extra especially favorite artists I like to turn the critic off. The reviewer.

I’ve been following Margaret Sohn, aka Miss Grit, since their debut full-length Follow The Cyborg landed 3 years ago.

We’ve been hovering around the spiritual realm with my last few Album of the Week picks so it’s time for something earthier.

A wonder of a record.

It was only after I dove in beyond a single song that I realized how deep the waters of Olivia O’s Telescope run.

I try to keep it unusual.

I have WPRB (103.3 on your FM dial) to thank for introducing me to another powerful intoxicating minimal mesmerizing record.

Bear with me—the river Styx flowed through Homer’s Iliad, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Dante’s Inferno and in each case it flowed deep underground and formed a boundary between this world and some other much less pleasant place.