GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker: There’s something especially satisfying about an album that sounds like it was recorded on borrowed time and basement floor inspiration. the flying people’s my cat is more lovely than you is a warm, warbly wonder—half new, half previously seen in their video work, all patched together with a kind of…

GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker: KUWAISIANA’s 2024 release, Mishriff / مشرف, is an intimate, politically tuned, and sonically cross-pollinated work that drives straight through the heart of diaspora identity, grief, and memory—with just enough time for Brian to drive across town, as the band wryly notes. Clocking in around a half-hour, Mishriff feels like a…

There are albums, and then there are transmissions. AM by 2st is the latter—a conceptual data stream pulsed directly from a tortured AI’s scorched neural pathways. This is not just inspired by Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream—it’s the sonic equivalent of the story’s final, agonizing sentence looped across nine relentlessly…

GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker: Philip Gayle’s Sunrise Crazy is the kind of album that refuses to sit still long enough to be defined. It’s an unruly burst of creativity that bursts its seams with every eccentric idea it can muster—then calmly inserts a piano interlude or a mournful clarinet passage just when you think…

GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker: When The Callous Daoboys come tearing out of the gate on I Don’t Want to See You in Heaven, it’s like being sideswiped by a truck full of emotional explosives mid-scream. And that scream—Carson Pace’s signature howler—rips through each track like torn vocal cords scribbling out a diary in fire.…

GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker: Benn Jordan (aka The Flashbulb) has a long-standing knack for making genres melt. Kirlian Tapes v1.0 is no exception—a fluid, exploratory ride through tonal sketches, lofi stutters, ambient swells, and jazz-infused detours that defy cohesion in the best possible way. What makes this collection click is exactly what might unnerve…