Bryan John Appleby’s debut LP, Fire on the Vine, opens with “Noah’s Nameless Wife,” a deeply disturbing personal portrait of Noah’s Flood. If you haven’t listened to it before, go ahead and do that. I’ll wait. Imagine the tumult of countless men, women, and children crying, moaning, and groaning into the air above the rising […]
Continue reading →I have often wondered why I feel more palpable fear while standing safely on the roof of a building than I do while looking out the window of a plane. In rational terms, I can easily comprehend that floating in what amounts to a closed metal tube a few thousand feet above ground is more […]
Continue reading →In a roundabout way, SECRETS, Deep Sea Diver’s second full-length album proves that Tolstoy’s adage about happy families might be exactly wrong.
Continue reading →Back while I was attending college almost a decade ago, I had a very awkward experience once with a drinking fountain that shot water from the left side rather than the right. I found myself incapable of drinking water from it, slurping and lapping awkwardly with little success. I hadn’t really thought about it before […]
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