- Presenting your latest release as “a data dump from [my] array of maxed-out hard drives” is not the most inspiring description of the artistic process. Some people’s hard drives are better than others though, right? 

<p><span><span>- Jade Imagine operate at their own pace. Two years removed from a stellar and well-received debut EP it’s now time for the group’s first album excursion. This outing adds a welcome fidelity -which is to be expected on a full-length- to the band’s pretty lackadaisical style. That’s not to say that their slacker drawl and soporific songs are bland or insipid: what <em>Basic Love </em>does is flesh out the -much covered- modern malaise.

- After five years without releasing a full length project, Australian electro-indie artist SPOD has returned with his fourth album, Adult Fantasy. Combining synth chords with dreary, yet strangely engaging vocals, SPOD may appear, at first listen, to be reminiscent of a bygone electronic era. However, it is with multiple delves into Adult Fantasy that the singer-songwriter’s true lyrical prowess begins to present itself. The album, thematically, is a combination of both the real elements of adult life and some more fantastical ones.

- 2019 is turning out to be a pretty good year for instrumental post-metal releases, with Pelican’s Nighttime Stories coming out back in June to considerable fanfare and the new Russian Circles album being released today. Entitled Blood Year, the three-piece’s newest LP plays to the band’s strengths rather than radically reinventing their sound.