A deeper look at the grooves pressed into Territories’ Colder Now LP. I waited far, far longer to review this album than I had any right to. The reason I waited to review Territories’ Colder Now LPwas because I wanted the season to match the album cover – because there’s a sense of isolation about it which doesn’t compliment the music, but does compliment the sense of isolation which comes with a positively frigid Canadian winter. Depending upon where you...
A deeper look at the grooves pressed into the Agricultural Tragic LP by Corb Lund. It’s genuinely hard to believe that Agricultural Tragic is Corb Lund’s tenth full-length album (fifth for New West). Since first appearing in 1995, the Alberta-based band has maintained a release schedule which has managed to illustrate consistent growth and improvement on a timeline which it’s almost possible to set one’s watch to. Not only that, when fans hear that Corb Lund has a new album...
A deeper look at the grooves pressed into Territories’ When The Day Is Done 10” EP Work in the press long enough, and eventually one begins to rely on the complications that one finds with a release, because the difficulties in qualifying or quantifying the sound of an album (and the media – for that matter) become the fuel for for what makes that release good or not and why. It’s actually a really easy cheat which, now that I’ve...