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Prism’s TopTen Songs of 2025
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PRISM REVIEWS - TOP 10 SONGS OF 2025
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7 months ago
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"The big take away for me, besides his calculated coolness, is the work that went into these songs, from the poetry and post-punk perspective."
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KAREEM RAHMA & TINY GUN, PLEASE RESPOND
“Where’s the punchline? / There’s no such thing / As an ordinary life,” Kareem Rahma and his band Tiny Gun sing on their latest EP, called Please Respond. Kareem is the ubiquitous face behind the i…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/06/27/kareem-rahma-tiny-gun-please-respond/
2 days ago
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"They are all songs that pull on your heart with a mythic magnetism."
@keenanomeara.bsky.social
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KEENAN O’MEARA, BATHE IN THE EVERLASTING LIGHT
“Heaven is here again / It’s back on my mind / All is submerged again / The cruel kill the kind,” Keenan O’Meara sings on his latest album of mercy-dripping country-influenced alternative folk tune…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/keenan-omeara-bathe-in-the-everlasting-light/
3 days ago
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"Something to rival any of the great songwriters, like James Taylor or Jimmy Buffet, out there doing their sometimes breezy hearted, sometimes deep thinking tunes."
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STAN GRAHAM, ABOUT TIME
“As I sing in the night / My soul rises within me / Bursts from my chest and takes flight,” Harford County, Maryland’s Stan Graham sings about witnessing “A Snowy Night in Maryland” on his latest a…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/stan-graham-about-time/
6 days ago
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"It’s a sad but inspiring—and certainly inspired—record."
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DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, I BUILT YOU A TOWER
“Please forgive me / these nights, my head is full of stars / of constellations retreating / away from where we are / and I fear I’ll soon be wishing on an empty sky,” Ben Gibbard opens his n…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/death-cab-for-cutie-i-built-you-a-tower/
9 days ago
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"If you’ve been following the Geese craze recently definitely check them out, I think they one better them."
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ICEAGE, FOR LOVE OF GRACE AND THE HEREAFTER
“Blood could billow in a glass of water,” Danish post punk quintet, Iceage, sings to close their latest 12 track album, For Love of Grace and the Hereafter. Their album is filled with much religiou…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/iceage-for-love-of-grace-and-the-hereafter/
10 days ago
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"The album, it seems to me, is both a grower and a shower, and I imagine some people will be impressed with the poetic flavorings and move on, where others will live in this album and perhaps call it their album of the year."
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THEE WINDOWS, OUT AND DOWN
“I wrote a song about owls and the magnolia tree / And it didn’t mean anything to anybody / No exception for me,” Thee Windows’ Dustin O’Keefe sings on their latest album, Out and Down, which was r…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/thee-windows-out-and-down/
11 days ago
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"It’s always a strangely beautiful trip listening to a Pile record, if a bit 'Uneasy' at times."
@pile.bsky.social
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PILE, SUNSHINE AND BALANCE BEAMS
Labor is bound by growth / the vines slowly crawl up the walls / a monument to be swallowed whole,” Pile’s Rick Maguire sings with morbidity and hope on their latest record which is “a Sisyphean fa…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/pile-sunshine-and-balance-beams/
14 days ago
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"But it shows Damian’s insatiable morbid curiosity with life and developed sense for the absurd, something I can certainly appreciate, as a music and art lover."
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DAMIAN WOLF, MORTARS
“Oh, the dread / I can’t contain love.” Baltimore’s Damian Wolf, a name that is noticeably two variations on the devil, has a seriously dark aesthetic and biting lyrics, on his latest album Mortars…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/damian-wolf-mortars/
14 days ago
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"She is like if Natalie Merchant met Jennifer Knapp, and there is both a country growl and a clarion folk call to her voice and sound."
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ERIKA SHERGER, WRAP ME UP IN COLORED FEATHERS
“Remember the pine trees here need fire to survive,” Northern New Jersey’s Erika Sherger sings on her gritty, realistic/romantic alt Americana album, Wrap Me Up In Colored Feathers, which came out …
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/06/13/erika-sherger-wrap-me-up-in-colored-feathers/
16 days ago
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"They were the heroes waiting in the wings, and their performance was a thrill."
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LAKEFEST 2026, LIVE REVIEW
Tonight was the opening night of Columbia Festival of the Arts’ annual Lakefest, and I went particularly to see the funk alternative sounds of Ariel Posen, who I was introduced to this year, to my …
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/lakefest-2026-live-review/
17 days ago
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"You can’t very well call a good songwriter 'professional' (perhaps 'confessional' will do), but he’s about as close to an textbook songwriter as you can get."
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ASHTON YORK, LOVED AND LOST
“It’s a beautiful day in November / and I’m reading a book / in a sun-facing coffee shop / on Powell and Bush.” That’s how San Francisco’s Ashton York starts the song, “Hot Tears,” on his latest al…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/ashton-york-loved-and-lost/
19 days ago
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"Dripping with mortality and hope, it’s a heavy and inventive record."
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MODEST MOUSE, AN ERASER AND A MAZE
“Well, they’ll go crazy if you don’t go crazy somehow / and I’m not crazy ‘bout what they’re so crazy ‘bout now,” Modest Mouse’s Issack Brock sings on the lead off single of their latest album, An …
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/modest-mouse-an-eraser-and-a-maze/
19 days ago
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"Where religious art is often sentimental or made to pull on the heart strings—what some would argue to manipulate—Olde(r) Love(rs) music (sonically AND lyrically) is placed firmly in the uncomfortable and therefore profound."
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OLDE(R) LOVE(RS), FIT & CLEAN IN THE DAYS OF RAIN
“Yesterday I read your verse / It quickened something true in me / Everything is strange and new / This blind man / began to sing.” Baltimore’s Olde(r) Love(rs), who puts out a number of records a …
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/older-lovers-fit-clean-in-the-days-of-rain/
21 days ago
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"The word 'earworm' might get thrown around a lot by music reviewers, but that is what these songs are. Fuzzy earworms."
@inlandyears.bsky.social
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INLAND YEARS, THE MEADOWS
DIY tape music from around the 90s was not about instrumental or vocal precision or acumen, but the feeling of emotionally-rich soundscapes, which was made even cooler by the fuzz surrounding every…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/inland-years-the-meadows/
22 days ago
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"They are like if Sebadoh met the Cure, with their emotional lyrics, adventurous guitars and drumming, and almost dead pan vocals."
@yigband.bsky.social
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YOUTH IN GOVERNMENT, SILHOUETTES
“Lonely child / who are you waiting for? / You know that time doesn’t stop,” DC’s shoegaze, space rock outfit, Youth in Government, sings on their latest album, Silhouettes. They are like if …
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/youth-in-government-silouhettes/
29 days ago
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"It is at once a vulnerable and confident offering."
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KEELY AND THE TEA LIGHTS, UNIVERSAL ANXIETY
“I tried my best to drive them all away / thank god for those who stayed,” Richmond Virginia’s Keely Burn sings on her latest album of fully-fleshed out pop singer-songwriter tunes, called Universa…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/keely-and-the-tea-lights-universal-anxiety/
about 1 month ago
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“A soul that is always changing and facing life as it is, not as he wants it to be.”
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BLUECARTOONBLUES, NO MAGIC
“This time when I stop out the darkness / I won’t take with it / the light,” Seth Emmert of Knoxville, Tennessee’s bluecartoonblues sings on his four track album, No Magic. Starting with “Samsara” …
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/bluecartoonblues-no-magic/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAdGRleASGXEBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAafVdpaIm9BZWDwu4nlugDiHnznvziwNeQfZnmXlt7P49jlSxcYAxCFb6r_01A_aem__SoSMps4YbtGuI2h7GQgdQ
about 1 month ago
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“Her work harkens back to those historic archetypes. And her work, with all of the carved detail, is decidedly more sophisticated than those earlier pieces.”
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ROSE ZAESKE, SCULPTURES
It was supposed to be a rainy Memorial Day weekend, here in Baltimore. I forgot my raincoat at home in York, so decided not to catch the much-anticipated Roots show at Artscape on Saturday night, b…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/05/24/rose-zaeske-sculptures/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAdGRleASAfd9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAaeCbi9IhXYhvwJsoCM80MS_RYCGFc9O1WwE6CfE8dGvTqis8mdM0DDyJizmoQ_aem_4Rju158ZEpU6QwezN_xUXA
about 1 month ago
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"Their mixture of different emo genres results in wonderful guitar play and vocal dynamics, and the whole album is adventurous from start to finish."
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FILM, PERMANENCE
With phrases like “diminished return” and “reductive reasoning,” Philly’s emo-influenced band, Film, who takes from bands like Thrice as much as they take from bands like Braid, there is a feeling …
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/film-permanence/
about 1 month ago
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"It is a bit like the sound of the future, taking a bit from bands like 21 Pilots, who meld many different genres to thrilling effect."
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SOMA PLEASE, BALLET
To a musician, the highest compliment is to say that you’re a fan. The new duo out of Portugal and the UK, Soma Please, have written an attention-grabbing love song, turning the concept of being a …
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/soma-please-ballet/
about 1 month ago
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"It’s a particularly Morby characteristic to write a song about our inevitable death in way that feels like you're in a meditation retreat. It’s a good album."
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KEVIN MORBY, LITTLE WIDE OPEN
“Remember when they asked us, baby, just how it felt / to be alone in the middle of / middle America?” Kevin Morby asks on the radio hit, “Javelin,” off his latest record, Little Wide Open. He answ…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/kevin-morby-little-wide-open/
about 1 month ago
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“Like a marriage of B-52s and Arcade Fire.”
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THE NORTH COUNTRY, THE FUTURE’S ALL WE NEED
“And if you don’t make a move / everything stays the same / nostalgia is a crutch / don’t be afraid to make a change,” Washington D.C.’s pop alternative group, The North Country sing inspiringly on…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/05/16/the-north-country-the-futures-all-we-need/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAdGRleAR18RxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAafmYoRiRaiGF8mDRpz-mQv3zMHrHP7x_qgmNxQs3Q-GVj7UvSOX9UWhUs8sDg_aem_lCWOak6ffFq8qSrN04sGaA
about 1 month ago
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“My arms were agog with gooseflesh.”
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ANNABELLE DINDA, SOME THINGS NEVER LEAVE
“Every time a guy writes a song, he’s a cowboy a sailor,” Annabelle Dinda sings on WXPN, as I drive to work, and I think, “Guilty as charged.” I have written good songs, maybe, but Dinda’s songwrit…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/annabelle-dinda-some-things-never-leave/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAdGRleAR0c6xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAacqaVvb64CiuVn08D5Utg9qgUw_nLXYMZIsUlzhH4Bl3soNzyDeBv0B0-l_3A_aem_b50lQVowFmdPXFVwh3JUug
about 1 month ago
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"This album puts a pep in your step and cries the tears you’ve been holding back for so long. It’s a candy-sweet, meaty blues emotional roller coaster of an album, establishing Ariel Posen as a musician to watch in modern music."
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ARIEL POSEN, BANNATYNE
If Dawes did a record that focused on thrilling funk/blues guitar acrobatics, it would sound something like Ariel Posen’s new record, Bannatyne. Ariel has the same cool vocal delivery as Taylor Gol…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/ariel-posen-bannatyne/
about 2 months ago
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"It is an impressively haunting and humorous album, holding two worlds in one mind/heart, in a way only an expert poet and songsmith can do."
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TY MAXON, POSTCARDS IN THE RAIN
“You can’t go back and replay / your hand, it don’t work that way.” “Look where you’re at / and love who you can / and listen to the rain / it’s laughing.” Michigan’s Ty Maxon, who plucks his guita…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/ty-maxon-postcards-in-the-rain/
about 2 months ago
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"His unique songwriting ability, with often thrilling harmonies, in the vein of some of my favorite writers, is what won me over, and I’m a new fan, for sure."
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SAINTSENECA, HIGHWALLLOW & SUPERMOON SONGS
“Busted strings, long since fallen silent / long to shake with sacred song / An empty page begs to be love’s letter / well, then I found this on the ground, now I’ll try and write you one,” Zac Lit…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/saintseneca-highwalllow-supermoon-songs/
about 2 months ago
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“Like Jeff Buckley, Joe P seems like a musical outlier of his generation…”
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JOE P, LIVE AT LOW DIVE 2025
“We take pictures so we remember who we are,” New Jersey’s rock n roll expert crooner, Joe P, sings on his Live at Low Dive 2025 put out this year, giving the sentiment behind recording a live show…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/joe-p-live-at-low-dive-2025/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAdGRleARq9GRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAaeF0evxax5PhsD_1ohaGBpDe1Dg7UL1bX-UYpVHup3eKT-Ro2tVll9nRnGJig_aem_LhL1LTOMAEKc3k55vZ03hQ
about 2 months ago
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"If you like ambient music, if you like harp music, Mere of Light takes you a step further into the world-building of a musician with a strong vision and a power to bring imagination into reality."
@lightenupsounds.bsky.social
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MERE OF LIGHT, HEAT OF RITUAL
When Elise McArdle of the New Orleans’ harp folk, electronic, and ambient act Mere of Light sings “Soul scraped raw / like an orange rind / pomegranate bleeding pearls,” towards the end of her six …
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/mere-of-light-heat-of-ritual/
2 months ago
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"It is in the vein of artists like Hovvdy and Andy Shauf, with often surprising and memorable songwriting."
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RENNY CONTI, S/T
“Outside of the city / but inside of a car / we let a hundred conversations starve,” Brooklyn’s Renny Conti sings on his self-titled album which came out last year. It is in the vein of artists lik…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/renny-conti-s-t/
2 months ago
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"...but considered a gift from the heavens with those who give it the time and the listen that it deserves. Go check out ANOTHER album by Mythical Motors—and get it on vinyl!" Thanks to
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First Third 2026 Prism Playlist (January through April). Enjoy!
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PRISM REVIEWS - FIRST THIRD 2026
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2 months ago
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"Though it’s one of many such lo-fi, fuzzed out, power pop albums, this is the first that they have made available on vinyl, a big event for the band."
@mythicalmotors.bsky.social
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MYTHICAL MOTORS, TREMOLO ON THE PUNCHLINE
“The Queen of Fleeting Moments / will shine for you in time” sounds uncannily like a lyric from a Guided by Voices song. It also happens to be Chatanooga’s GBV-sounding band Mythical Motors’ MO. Mo…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/04/26/mythical-motors-tremolo-on-the-punchline/
2 months ago
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"It is a multi-sensory experience, the imagination becoming the important sixth sense."
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LOFIELD, DISINTEGRATION BLUES
North Carolina’s instrumental post-rock outfit, Lofield, is the kind of stuff that might soundtrack a sci-fi film, with its emotive guitars and symphony of drums and bass. On their latest album, DI…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/04/25/lofield-disintegration-blues/
2 months ago
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"It feels like a historic event, getting a new record from de Augustine, who recalls Nick Drake and channels the most beautiful folk pop of the 60s and 70s. Especially considering what he’s been through, in the last couple of years."
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ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE, ANGEL IN PLAINCLOTHES
“Who can claim to understand their place within the universe’s plan? / I tried my best to know,” Asthmatic Kitty’s Angelo de Augustine sings on his latest ten track album, called Angel In Plainclot…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/angelo-de-augustine-angel-in-plainclothes/
2 months ago
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"Put this record on and folk the freak out."
@yellatgod.bsky.social
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YELL AT GOD, DANCE, DANCE, REVOLT!
“So cry out and shriek and gasp / in the end, the echo lasts,” Philadelphia’s queer femme grass band, Yell At God, sing on their latest album, Dance Dance Revolt. With its heavy and fast Appalachia…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/yell-at-god-dance-dance-revolt/
2 months ago
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"KDMQ has a ghostly voice and is adept at spooky and beautiful musical composition."
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KDMQ, FOLK
“No, no, duele amar.” “To let your name take flight— / a synonym for laughter; / in such rejoicing, it does not hurt to love,” Mexico’s Auntie Kevin or KDMQ starts off their album of mostly Spanish…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/kdmq-folk/
2 months ago
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"And write a good song, he does."
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DOG IN A BOY SUIT, S/T
“Break my heart wide open / it’s where we drink from / break my heart wide open / eternal ocean,” central Pennsylvania’s Austin Kleine, otherwise know as Dog in A Boy Suit (or DIBS) sings on his la…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/04/19/dog-in-a-boy-suit-s-t/
2 months ago
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"Musically, it is an ambitious album, and Caleb’s voice, with its range and emotion, is a great way into an album that is filled with superb song construction, sometimes goosebump-inducing."
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FAKE DOGS, EVERY IMAGE AN IDOL
“We are cloaked in pride / broken mirrors, severed ties / what I’d give to see your face in mine,” Caleb Michael of Steubenville, Ohio’s Fake Dogs, sings on his album, Every Image an Idol. St…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/04/17/fake-dogs-every-image-an-idol/
2 months ago
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"But that’s the spirit behind it: just get your hands dirty and have fun, with no preconceived notion of what it’s gonna look like."
@heavenforreal.bsky.social
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HEAVEN FOR REAL, WHO DIED & MADE YOU THE DREAM?
In the video for Heaven for Real’s “Improvement” off their latest 2025 album, Who Died & Made You The Dream?, Mark Grundy picks up a paint brush and a palette with gobs of different colored pai…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/heaven-for-real-who-died-made-you-the-dream/
3 months ago
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"The album is an exercise in painting time with vibrant colors that, simultaneously, allow you to escape time."
@carolinedavis.bsky.social
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CAROLINE DAVIS, FALLOWS
The concept of leaving a field fallow, a practice in not overusing land but letting it rest in between seasons of planting, that is found in the Hebrew Scriptures, is about as anti-Capitalist as yo…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/caroline-davis-fallows/
3 months ago
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"Although she is an award-winning musician, it still feels a bit like Linda Sussman is a hidden treasure, 'Long Island Made' and with 'All The Songs of Peace.'"
@lindasussman-music.bsky.social
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LINDA SUSSMAN, DON’T DRINK THE POISON
“There are holes, there are holes in your heart / no matter what you do, they never fill up,” New York folk and blues artist, Linda Sussman sings to start her latest collection of songs, called Don…
https://prismreviews.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/linda-sussman-dont-drink-the-poison/
3 months ago
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"Wendy came out on the other side, with something truly awesome and beautiful in this experimental folk album."
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WENDY EISENBERG, S/T
“Isn’t time like an improvisation / like money: sometimes moving / Meaningless except for how it moves things,” Wendy Eisenberg, a new addition to Joyful Noise Records, sings on their latest jazzy,…
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"...treading the path of rock n roll, faithful to the ever-elusive and ever-satisfying cool."
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"If Nick Cave sang about American buffalo and kneeling before “West Rock” in the Northeastern United States, it would sound something like Paul Bergman’s latest record, Connecticut Cowboy."
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PAUL BERGMANN, CONNECTICUT COWBOY
If Nick Cave sang about American buffalo and kneeling before “West Rock” in the Northeastern United States, it would sound something like Paul Bergman’s latest record, Connecticut Cowboy. A seasone…
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"His music never speaks down to his listener, but offers a grace and encourages a grit to make it through life’s inevitable struggles."
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SAFARI ROOM, HOW TO KEEP A FIRE BURNING
“I’ve found a way to carry on / Then I lost it,” Alex Koukol of Nashville-transplant’s shimmering rock outfit, Safari Room, sings on his latest album, How To Keep A Fire Burning. It is eight wonder…
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"In that way, they embrace their punk roots and the punk ethos of fighting for what they believe, in short, concise, but adventurous song."
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STILL BONES, START/STOP
“You better take the long way / to see it through / don’t care about the wrong way / got better things to do,” Baltimore’s alt punk, indie emo band, Still Bones, sings off their latest EP, Start/St…
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"A great find, from a city that never ceases to amaze, with new music in every genre and every taste, melding together in the melting pot that is Baltimore City."
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I AM NIGHT, SALVADORA
“And when the rain falls / the raindrop / gracefully kisses the stone / until it breaks,” Baltimore’s Brazilian Prog Rock meets jazz fusion band, I Am Night, sings in Portuguese on their latest rel…
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"Really enjoyed this record, and felt like it was even more cohesive and catchy than their last offering, The Window."
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"She is actually a master at finding meaning, drama, and hooks in real life, especially semi-fictional story songs. I almost cried a number of times, listening to the record—her music on this album, as always, pulls on the heart strings."
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ELIZABETH & THE CATAPULT, RESPONSIBLE FRIEND
I love when there’s a story within a story in somebody’s song. Elizabeth Ziman, also known as the New York City “indie clever” artist Elizabeth and the Catapult, piano and guitar player extraodinai…
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