Month: September 2024

Daily Yinz – TELESTIALVISION – Taurus in a Field

The experimental duo's debut tape is Taurus in a Field (Island House Recordings). The tape's title track is a seventeen-and-a-half minute swell built around wind-chimey guitar sprigs and drones that warm as gently as sunbeams rising over a knoll. Sighs pitched halfway between breeze and sea spray carry along little electronic flutters; as-yet-undiscovered insect species … Continue reading Daily Yinz – TELESTIALVISION – Taurus in a Field →

Daily Yinz – Scrum Force – Scrumantha

A bleary-eyed ode to a mannequin head. I love a silly name. Some of my favorite books feature characters dubbed Pig Bodine, Captain Aardvark, U.S.S. Millicent Kent, and Nurse Waddams, and when I write fiction I try to give characters the most obnoxious and grating monikers possible. Just reading the title of "Scrumantha," the new … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Scrum Force – Scrumantha →

Daily Yinz – Urban Doctors – Country Boi

Experience the pop-punk quartet's latest EP In 3D. "Country Boi" is a surprisingly heartrending finish to an EP that features Bill & Ted-esque time travel, "Jupiter" rhymed with "stupider," and a song called "Untitled Banger." The closing track's guitars are sweaty-basement-show anthemic, and Dr. Phosphorus' vocal melody is rousing as hell, but the lyrics, which … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Urban Doctors – Country Boi →

Daily Yinz – A & Ben Sonenblum – Concerto action for piano no.4: 1st movement

Piano and string music that evokes the sensation of being lost at sea. I just finished watching the first season of The Terror, and I don't think I've ever seen a show commit so fully to slow-motion trainwreckery. It presents a fictionalized account of the 1845 Franklin expedition, which disappeared into ice as it searched … Continue reading Daily Yinz – A & Ben Sonenblum – Concerto action for piano no.4: 1st movement →