When Jenny Lewis released her solo debut, Rabbit Fur Coat, two years ago, she felt safe in the knowledge that little was riding on it. Had the low-budget independent release failed to impress, there was always the success of Rilo Kiley to return to. Yet not only did the album outsell anything the Californian band…

You might think that anyone willing to release an album has already resigned themselves to the public dissection that inevitably follows – not so with Jherek Bischoff.
After playing with and producing the likes of The Dead Science, Parenthetical Girls, the Octopus Project and Xiu Xiu, this is Bischoff’s second attempt at a solo project…

With one listen of Rook, Jonathan Meiburg’s recent departure from the highly acclaimed Okkervil River becomes entirely understandable. Easily Shearwater’s defining moment, their fifth album is so distinct that to label it as a side-project would be a great disservice.