Gwenno’s second album, Le Kov, is Cornish for “the place of memory.” This title couldn’t be more appropriate for this album which, outside of crafting a slightly haunting throwback musical vibe, is using a nearly-dead language to tell us about…
High Maintenance 2×08 Review: “Ghost”
After a strong middle section of the season, it feels like High Maintenance is gradually settling back into its usual routine. The familiar structure returns this week, with a little over half of the episode devoted to characters tangentially related…
Alone Together 1×08 Review: “Sleepover”
After the previous episode and its lack of momentum, this week’s Alone Together is relatively stuffed with activity and plot. From the first scene, the episode charges out of the gate with what feels like faster than usual banter between Esther…
High Maintenance 2×07 Review: “HBD”
It’s a little odd to step back into the old routine of High Maintenance after two such relatively serial installments focused on The Guy, but “HBD” unfolds like the best short stories. It has just enough material to feel complete, but…
Alone Together 1×07 Review: “The Big One” Finds Esther and Benji Preparing for an Earthquake
Esther and Benji face the prospect of “The Big One,” California’s inevitable disastrous earthquake this week, and manage to save their episode from equal disaster by a few solid jokes at the end. Well, maybe disaster is too strong of…
Album Review: U.S. Girls – “In a Poem Unlimited”
Meghan Remy’s seventh album as U.S. Girls, In a Poem Unlimited, is definitively her best yet. The U.S. Girls sound has been consistently evolving with each record, taking tiny steps towards more polished indie-pop music and away from the experimental…
High Maintenance 2×06 Review: “Googie”
High Maintenance is not often interested in serialized storytelling, but they’re easing into it this season with this episode, “Googie.” It acts as a second part to last week’s “Scromple,” and parallels it in a few ways: The Guy is…
