Ryley Walker - Primrose Green

Ryley Walker - Primrose GreenRyley Walker is the reincarnation of the true True American guitar Guitar player Player. That's as much a testament to his roving, rambling ways, or as to the fact that his Guild D 35 guitar has endured a few stints in the pawnshop. Primrose Green begins near where All Kinds of You, his last record, leaves off but quickly pushes far afield. The title sounds pastoral and quaint, but the titular green has dark hallucinogenic qualities, as does much of

which was reflected on the album’s cover - a close-up of their friend Carolyn’s hand as shot by Juergen Teller

“Inner Marshland” features the anglophile’s dreamscape of “Termination Station Grey”

it is Rother playing it

Originally released in 1973

Melkbelly sculpts their signature balance between subtle melody and frantic noise on new album PITH

which features a more accurate depiction of how the band sounded when they played live

Le Cliché was re-ignited in 2012

Peter Brotzman and Albert Ayler

Whereas 2007’s Drums and Guns railed against the war in Iraq

novelist and essayist Jonathan Lethem called the entirety of the Bandit Records tale "Haunting

he played such huge venues as Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden

and expanding the possibilities of sound