Month: December 2023

I did a lot of baking in 2023, and here are some of this year’s most special muffins and tarts. 25. The Tubs – Dead MeatThese Welsh Londoners crafted something sublime out of codependent self-hatred. Do we need another guitar bass drums rock band? Yes please if they deliver heavenly pained harmonies and titles like…… Continue reading Best Albums of 2023

On her latest one Acts of Light, Hilary Woods sculpts sound in great swaths of minor chord texture, building seductively doom-laden worlds with titles like “Burial Rites,” “Vigil,” and title of the year contender “Wife Mother Lover Crow.” She sometimes veers toward the melodic, i.e. the unreasonably lovely undead Enya evocation of “Where the Bough…… Continue reading December ’23