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Rogue Wave: Permalight

Going rogue, falling flat In the three years since Rogue Wave’s last album, frontman Zach Rogue has discovered the synthesizer. This isn’t bad in theory, but in practice the newfound instrument does little to lift Rogue Wave to the next level....  read more

Mason Jennings: Blood of Man

This wiry haired, plaid-clad Minnesota musician has established himself as...  read more

Zee Avi: Brushfire Records & Monotone Present Zee Avi

The marquee-style album title is telling here...  read more

Neil Halstead: Oh! Mighty Engine

Slowdive founder burns slowlyAfter the quiet triumph of his first solo outing, 2002’s Sleeping On Roads, Neil Halstead apparently decided there was no need to fix what wasn’t broken. Smart guy. Oh! Mighty Engine returns to the land of sublime bedroom pop, all acoustic-based and velvet-vocaled, sincere but never strained, pretty and bittersweet. (See, in particular, “Queen Bee” and the title track, which are beautiful but disheveled—like a really attractive person with bedhead.) As a founder of 1990s shoegazers Slowdive, Halstead was a master of room-filling, soul-searching, eyeliner-smeared sound. Then the bearded Brit threw open the door to the sunlight...  read more