DEAD OCEANS

Vinyl LP pressing. There's No Leaving Now, the 2012 record from Kristian Matsson's aptly titled moniker, The Tallest Man on Earth, finds the Swedish troubadour trading in the sense of urgency that...

The story begins with Kevin Morby absentmindedly flipping through a box of old family photos in the basement of his childhood home in Kansas City. Just hours before, at a family dinner, his father...

Bear in Heaven's 2014 album is aptly titled Time is Over One Day Old. It's a record with a visceral relationship to time and it's processes. Where invulnerability and ambition can support you as you...

In 1975 Willie Nelson recorded the album to Lefty FromWillie, 10 songs in which Nelson pays homage to Lefty Frizell, reinterpreting his favorites from the Frizzell catalog and stamping them with his...

The temptation to mythologize Bill Fay can be overwhelming; Fay was, for decades, as prolific as he was under-appreciated. Fay's unsung-hero status has changed slowly, steadily, on the order of...

The Luyas are four musicians named Jessie Stein, Mathieu Charbonneau, Pietro Amatro and Stefan Scheider. They made a record called Too Beautiful to Work at 6 Nassau in Toronto, Ontario, and call...

Too Much Time is a perfect pop song and the unquestioned centerpiece of John Vanderslice's finest record to date, Romanian Names. A true single, "Too Much Time" is now being released as a limited...

Rather than fixate on the minute details like they may have done in the past, the group, rounded out by drummer Robi Gonzalez, trust their instincts and try to keep things as pure as possible. Music...

In a long and emotionally exhausting year of being inside (alone, in my case,) I have found myself thinking about mirrors. How to avoid spending too much time in them, most days. Taking inventory of...

Durand Jones's Wait 'Til I Get Over is a memoir and a love letter. It is the story of Jones's life, his growth and revelations, the wisdom of his hometown and the wisdom he could only gain once he...