Aaron Frank has been playing frisbee golf all winter. At the outset of every new year, I inevitably find an album that should’ve appeared on my previous year-end favorites list. I stupidly shrugged off Fever Ray as “too weird” in 2009, and eventually became a serious fan through her debut album and dynamic performance at […]

Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way: Forget is a pop record, through and through. I understand the need to put George Lewis Jr.’s debut record as Twin Shadow within a “cooler” frame of reference due to the company he keeps (producer-for-hire and Grizzly Bear multi-instrumentalist Chris Taylor handles the boards on […]

Twin Shadow – Castles In The Snow Directed by Jamie Harley from Twin Shadow on Vimeo. Somehow Twin Shadow have eluded the dirty shoes treatment, so it’s left to me to chime in a cautious co-sign for George Lewis Jr., who hails from the colony of Brooklyn, boasts the imprimatur of Grizzly Bear, Chris Taylor, […]