These songs are strikingly beautiful, if less elliptical and more straightforward, with more sophisticated arrangments than the last record, 2006's EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME. Produced by Phil Ek.

Guitarist/vocalist Ben Bridwell and bassist Mat Brooke froemd Band of Horses in 2004 after the dissolution of their nearly 10-year run in northwest melancholic darlings Carissa's Weird. Carissea's... more

BLOOM is the fourth full length album by Beach House. BLOOM is meant to be experienced as an Album, a singular, unified vision of the world. The many layers of BLOOM are uncomplicated and... more

2010 album from the Baltimore duo. Recorded in upstate New York, in a converted church called Dreamland with producer/engineer Chris Coady (who has worked with TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and... more

Father John Misty is the nom-de-plume of Josh Tillman, who has been releasing solo albums since 2003 and who recently left Seattle's Fleet Foxes after playing drums from 2008-2011. FEAR FUN is Father... more

Seattle's Fleet Foxes traffic in baroque harmonic pop. They draw influences from the traditions of folk, pop, choral, gospel, sacred harp singing, West Coast music, traditional music from Ireland to... more

Like very nearly every worthwhile thing, making this album was not easy; it was a difficult second album to make. Drawing inspiration from folk/rock from about 1965 to 1973, and Van Morrisons ASTRAL... more

Seattle's Fleet Foxes make such complex, harmonic, 70s inspired folk rock, it's hard to believe that the band's principle songwriter, Robin Pecknold, is only 21 years old. There's a moment on David... more

This double CD/triple LP collects songs ranging from out-of-print to never-before-released and spans Iron And Wine's earliest sessions which yielded the band's debut (2002's THE CREEK DRANK THE... more

One of those one-guy-and-his-tape deck affairs. An ode to an older South of traditional values, pastoral imagery, and arcane manners. This is arresting stuff, intimate "American Gothic" style... more

On his second full-length, Sam Beam "launches balloons of sweetly whispered regret over trance-inducing backwoods string arrangements and watches them float away, his heart in tow - Entertainment... more

Sam Beam returns with a follow-up EP to last yyear's THE CREEK DRANK THE CRADLE. The songs here were culled from the same batch of bedroom recordings and the EP also serves as a precursor to Iron And... more

Iron and Wine's most ambitious and accomplished recording to date, and also the most satisfying. While many of US learned of Iron and Wine by way of the tender and spare rendering of the Postal... more

Sam Beam's third recorrd is striking both for it's broadened instrumental palette and it's thematic focus on female characters both archetypal and personal. He frames his melancholy in concrete... more

Canada's METZ are a return to everything that's good about loud, ecstatic live music; a frantic nod to Nation of Ulysses, Shellac, the Pixies, the Jesus Lizard, and Public Image Ltd. At their most... more

While it was impossible to anticipate how massive GIVE UP would become, it was obvious in 2003 that these guys had made something special. Ten years on it's amazing to know that so many people have... more

Shearwater brings you their Sub Pop debut and eighth overall album, Animal Joy. On Animal Joy, lead man Jonathan Meiburg has opted to ditch an approach that paid huge artistic dividends over his last... more

Recorded over time in James Mercer's basement studio, Phil Ek's Seattle digs, and in Oregon City with veteran engineer Joe Chiccarelli (Beck, U2) - Wincing the Night Away is a Whole new animal. It's... more

Every so often, Chad VanGaalen emerges from his bunker in Calgary with a batch of songs, giving US a window into the private world of this reclusive and enigmatic songwriter. With Diaper Island,... more

This Montreal band has toured with the likes of Modest Mouse and the Arcade Fire, they played last year's All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Claifornia, self-released two limited edition EPs and a... more

Their second album for Sub Pop just might be this generation's MARQUEE MOON or an indie rock CHINESE DEMOCRACY released thirty years earlier. Better though, to think of it's as the sound of a band... more

2010 release, the third album from the Montreal-based Alt Rockers. Recorded during a matter of weeks, Expo 86 finds Wolf Parade slimming themselves down to a four-piece lineup and continuing to... more