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: The Garages – LIVE @ HECKDANG
The Garages’ powerful four-song set from Heckdang’s recent Halloween livestream might be your best entryway into the collective’s unique, inclusive take on DIY punk.
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Spectreview: Peach Kelli Pop – Lucky Star [EP]
Peach Kelli Pop delivers a benevolent punch of breezy, comforting indie rock in her new Lucky Star EP.
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Spectreview: Emily E. Meo – The Found EP
Emily E. Meo's stretches household objects into nimble melodies throughout her new, joyously-constructed EP.
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Spectreview: Róisín Murphy – Róisín Machine
Róisín Murphy holds a mirrorball to the world in the liberative disco grooves of Róisín Machine, her best record to date.
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Spectreview: Floating Rooms – Tired and True [EP]
Maya Stoner articulates her exhaustion over five stellar indie songs in Floating Room’s self-explanatory Tired and True.
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Spectreview: Oceanator – Things I Never Said
Elise Okusami fills her debut LP under Oceanator with simply-crafted songs lined with striking lyrics and delivered with a bracing honesty.
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Spectreview: sous chef & swingset – Saturn
Saturn, a collaboration between Seattle’s Antoine Martel and Jordan Lowe, is a breezy jazz-inflected package speckled with collages.
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Spectreview: Adrienne Lenker – songs / instrumentals
Adrienne Lenker offers graceful examinations of heartbreak and the passage of time in the one-two punch of songs/instrumentals.
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Spectreview: al Riggs and Lauren Francis – Bile and Bone
Folk songwriter al Riggs teams up with Lauren Francis for Bile and Bone, a glacially-paced, devastatingly gorgeous record.
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Spectreview: Shamir – Shamir
Seven albums into his career, Shamir Bailey cements himself as a mercurial pop artist with a confident self-titled record.