Myriam Gendron – Mayday Life has been pretty hectic for the past few weeks. I admittedly haven’t been listening to as much music as normal, but when I’ve had time I gravitate towa…
by David Wilikofsky Philadelphia sextet (and sometimes septet) The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick share their name with a Wim Wenders movie; I only know this because the film is the fir…
by David Wilikofsky Over the past few years, claire rousay has emerged as a breakout star in experimental music circles. Though rousay has dabbled in many styles through her solo and collaborative …
Blue Bendy – So Medieval Though London six piece Blue Bendy came up in the same scene as Black Midi and Black Country, New Road, their discography (one EP and a handful of singles) is much sc…
by David Wilikofsky I managed to catch Still House Plants live when they swung through New York last year. Nearly as memorable as the music was the couple in front of me who spent the entire concer…
by David Wilikofsky To an indie rock audience, Kelly Moran may be best known for high profile collaborations with artists like Oneohtrix Point Never and FKA Twigs, but the musician and composer has…
Drill – Permanent The title of Drill’s debut album can be read in many ways. Perhaps it’s a tongue in cheek reference to the fact that the band broke up before the album saw the l…
by David Wilikofsky begbug emerged out the bedroom pop scene nearly a decade ago. The mastermind behind the moniker, Dylan Gamez Citron, recently wrote a lengthy article about the genre which serve…
The Narcotix – Dying I’ve seen The Narcotix perform live once, and they were one of the rare opening acts that blew the headliner out of the water. There was something mesmerizing about…
Yirinda – Yirinda Fred Leone is one of three Butchulla songmen, a steward of culture and music for the Butchulla (an Australian Aboriginal people whose language is currently endangered). Yiri…
by David Wilikofsky Danielle Boutet was born in Quebec City and studied music at the University of Montreal. After graduating she became involved with the burgeoning feminist and lesbian arts scene…
Flight Mode – The Three Times Flight Mode are obsessed with memory and the tricks it plays on you. The Oslo based band have released three EPs to date, each one dedicated to a specific time a…
by David Wilikofsky Open to Chance, the third album by Itasca (aka Kayla Cohen), is a record that’s stuck with me since I first heard it nearly a decade ago. A light, airy take on the Laurel …
by David Wilikofsky Have you ever walked into a building and just marveled at the sheer audacity of human ambition? For me, this happened when I visited Gaudí’s La Sagrada Familia. Gaudí may …
We’re going to be doing things a little bit differently going forward on Undrcurrents. We’re still going to be writing longer album reviews, but we also want a forum for celebrating and…
by David Wilikofsky When Glass Beach were putting together their first album (the aptly named the first glass beach album), they were focused on only one thing: the music. In an interview from 2019…
Undrcurrents started at the height of COVID, a time where I had little to do but sit around my apartment and listen to music. As the years passed, the world has opened up; though COVID is still a r…