Sufjan Stevens writes on Cryptacize's mission for self-knowledge.
Posted by Sufjan Stevens

When not listening to Mariah Carey's Christmas record, Adam Gnade listens to his own Christmas mixtape.
Posted by Adam Gnade

The cover artist of Shapes and Sizes' Split Lips discovers its nuances on multiple road (and ferry) trips.
Posted by Jonathan Dueck

A&R man provokes Shapes and Sizes.  Again. (See Part I here)
Posted by Shapes and Sizes

Jared Cheek finds that Everything, Now's new album is a bowl of chili that brings the world together as one like only the Lochness Monster can.
Posted by Jared Cheek

Polyphonic Spree guitarist and Sufjan touring member Annie Clark debuts as St. Vincent.
Posted by Adam Gnade

Rafter is simultaneously the scheming villain defending the nebula of his ego and our hero caterwauling through the sky.
Posted by David Michael Stith

It's never too late for waxing about the sonic weaving of Arthur Lee.
Posted by Lowell Brams

More Animals of the Arctic singer/songerwriter Michael Tapscott discovers unsharpened corners in Finding Shelter.
Posted by Michael Tapscott

Santa is the Greatest!
Posted by Zack Bent

Writer and musician Michael Tapscott says that Flying Canon's debut has something to do with fire and clouds.
Posted by Michael Tapscott

Nick Hennies of the Weird Weeds studies Peter & Wolf's Lighthouse as it studies "nostalgia and affection for life and the world."
Posted by Nick Hennies

Nathan of Shapes & Sizes questions the quintessential album of the quintessential lo-fi band that launched a thousand other quintessential lo-fi bands.
Posted by Shapes and Sizes

Vito enjoys the "modest, shuffling guitar" of painter Andy Friedman.
Posted by Vito Aiuto

This is time traveler’s pop at its quintessential.
Posted by Michael Kaufmann

Nintendo hi-jacked by prog-punk enthusiasts.
Posted by Michael Kaufmann

If Kraftwerk had been a hip-hop act from a small town on the Caspian Sea.
Posted by Michael Kaufmann

The album is a delicate but tastefully punctuated landscape, comprised of songs with narratives winding in and out of each other and open for decoding. 
Posted by Michael Kaufmann