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Published Sep 17, 2019 7 "Is this nice? Do you like it?" asks Devendra Banhart in the opening line on his tenth musical offering to the universe, Ma. Perhaps it asks that question too soon, tout de suite, before one even has an opinion or a chance to know how to feel. But this record is just that: nice. There isn't quite as much spice, colour or flash as seasoned listeners of his may be accustomed to, but it's nice.

Published Aug 01, 2019 8 Ty Segall is having fun. So much so that on First Taste, he's shelved his signature fuzzed-out electric guitar for different flavours found in the Greek bouzouki, Japanese koto and mandolin. Add in a healthy serving of brass and saxophone (neither of which are new to Segall, considering cuts from last year's Freedom's Goblin).

Daniel Romano Finally Free Published Nov 28, 2018 7 Two releases this year simply could not satisfy the fertile mind of Daniel Romano, as Finally Free, his third LP of 2018, proves. Never has Romano preached his prose so fervently, treating song like sermon at times. These nine tracks — some somewhat nebulous, each one impassioned — act as further evidence that Romano is ever-changing, never still.