Spectreview
Here you’ll find a collection of music reviews using the Spectreview system. We cover everything from popular releases to local music.
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Spectreview: Spellling – The Turning Wheel
Tia Cabral takes her unique artistic voice to new heights in the spellbinding, baroque songs of The Turning Wheel.
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Retrospectreview: Patrice Rushen’s Straight from the Heart Still Slaps After All These Years
Virtuosic keyboardist Patrice Rushen's best-known work has endured for a deceptively simple reason: smart, simple, glorious songwriting.
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Spectreview: Bryan Away – Canyons to Sawdust
Elliot Korte's new record as Bryan Away foregrounds a lush, baroque fantasy with the cold reality of entrenched human behavior.
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Spectreview: Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant
Melbourne neo-soul titans Hiatus Kaiyote return to showcase everything they do well (and a little more) on their splendiferous new record.
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Spectreview: Mt Fog – Guide to the Unknown
Mt Fog's Guide to the Unknown is a compelling, almost meditative collection of synth textures and sylvan melodies.
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Spectreview: Squirrel Flower – Planet (i)
Squirrel Flower's new record finds Ella Williams' tense, riveting folk rock heightened by a production that radiates heat lines.
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Spectreview: SAULT – ‘NINE’
SAULT's temporarily-available fifth album, both abject and therapeutic in turns, broadens the mysterious UK collective's sound ever so slightly.
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Spectreview: Kings of Convenience – Peace Or Love
After over a decade, Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe return to arpeggiate over Kings of Convenience's familiarly breezy third record.
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Spectreview: Backxwash – I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES
On her excellent new record, horrorcore producer Backxwash doubles down on the facets that made her breakthrough so compelling.
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Spectreview: Sleater-Kinney – Path of Wellness
On Path of Wellness, Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein posit an important question: is it possible for Sleater-Kinney to age gracefully?