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3 weeks ago | 
treblezine.com | Langdon Hickman
Hello everyone, it’s me, the person who vastly prefers Ugly Season with its avant-garde textures and deep texturalism over the other records Michael Hadreas has released under the Perfume Genius name. Obviously, I’m aware of his sharp acumen as a songwriter; his work prior to Ugly Season was an upward climb for me until Set Your Heart On Fire Immediately, the clear apex up until that point of his more song-oriented material.
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3 weeks ago | 
consequence.net | Langdon Hickman |Colin Dempsey
Mining Metal is a monthly column from Heavy Consequence contributing writers Langdon Hickman and Colin Dempsey. The focus is on noteworthy new music emerging from the non-mainstream metal scene, highlighting releases from small and independent labels — or even releases from unsigned acts.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Langdon Hickman |Colin Dempsey
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysMining Metal is a monthly column from Heavy Consequence contributing writers Langdon Hickman and Colin Dempsey. The focus is on noteworthy new music emerging from the non-mainstream metal scene, highlighting releases from small and independent labels — or even releases from unsigned acts.
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1 month ago | 
treblezine.com | Langdon Hickman
First, a point of correction. A few years ago when reviewing a previous Lonnie Holley record, Broken Mirror, made in collaboration with Matthew E. White, I wrongly presumed that the direction of the music was more driven by Holley than it turned out to be. Beyond wanting to offer a direct apology to White regarding that error, it also offered an instructive view of the compositional process for Holley’s work overall.
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1 month ago | 
treblezine.com | Langdon Hickman
Jason Isbell has been one of my favorites for a while, a position I staked out deliberately following Southeastern’s Chicxulub impact into the crooked bones of my life. You start to see from the outside structures that perhaps the artist, embedded deep into the flesh of the machinery of their own creations, perhaps cannot always keenly see.
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1 month ago | 
treblezine.com | Langdon Hickman
The self-titled album from you, infinite has provided me with such a vexing set of thoughts. First, the most obvious: this record is enjoyable, a solid slice of post-rock from old players of the genre, Jeremy Galindo and Raymond Brown having long been members of This Will Destroy You. And if you approach it wanting that glacial grandeur and modern rock-arranged orchestral work, you will be satisfied.
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1 month ago | 
consequence.net | Langdon Hickman |Colin Dempsey
Mining Metal is a monthly column from Heavy Consequence contributing writers Langdon Hickman and Colin Dempsey. The focus is on noteworthy new music emerging from the non-mainstream metal scene, highlighting releases from small and independent labels — or even releases from unsigned acts.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Langdon Hickman |Colin Dempsey
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysMining Metal is a monthly column from Heavy Consequence contributing writers Langdon Hickman and Colin Dempsey. The focus is on noteworthy new music emerging from the non-mainstream metal scene, highlighting releases from small and independent labels — or even releases from unsigned acts.
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2 months ago | 
treblezine.com | Langdon Hickman
I must admit I feel regret. Not just toward my editor, whom I failed to deliver this review of Federico Albanese’s Blackbirds and the Sun of October to earlier, not just to Albanese himself for the withholding of the same, but also to myself for tarrying in spending the dedicated time with this record I have since its release. Life and politics always seem to get in the way, being both the matter of life and its distraction.
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2 months ago | 
treblezine.com | Langdon Hickman
Ambrose Akinmusire has undergone a transformation. Where before his work seemed divided in its intent, assembling in the whole but dissolving on the order of pieces, on his latest album Honey From a Winter Stone, those former disparate elements are woven into suites of increasing length. Ruminative rolls of romantic piano arpeggios play against the ghost-like drift of phantasmal trumpet and singular piano notes.
