Jacob Metcalf: Fjord
One of my favorite things about life, in all of its aspects, is surprises. The value of pop music is its ability to be immediately familiar and comfortably simple. I'll warn you now: if you want an album that will not offer surprises or deviate more than a line here...
Earnest Matthew: The Knowledge of Good and Evil
It took five sets of stairs to climb to the third floor. Not all apartment buildings are as user-friendly as one would hope. Nor every human as intuitive as architects would hope... I was curious to finally meet the man whose music I had gotten to know pretty well...
ויהי אור (Hebrew): Let There Be Light
For anyone like me who grew up Protestant in the Bible Belt, these words were probably among the first you ever heard from the Word. They are probably most popular on January first when millions of over-ambitious readers check day one off of their Bible-in-a-year...
Ivan and the Mystiks: I Don’t Care When EP
How many times can you say something is strange or abnormal before you have to change your definition of "normal"? I asked myself this as I sat in an uncomfortably warm room during yet another "abnormally" hot October afternoon in Dallas. Sunlight passed easily...
The Parable of the Bird Pt. 1: The Mountain
One day, children were born. It was much like any other day, and they were much like any other children; full of wonder, adventure and a longing for glory. From the time they became their own beings, they began creating castles, forts and battles in their minds,...