| Handle with Care: Numero Group reissues Pastor T.L. Barrett | October 13, 2021 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen takes a critical look at Numero Group's reissue of music by Pastor T.L. Barrett.
| Call Him Mr. Pitiful: O.V. Wright’s A Nickel and a Nail | August 3, 2021 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen sheds a tear with O.V. Wright, one of soul's most underrated weepers.
| Apres Eux Le Deluge: Light in the Attic’s Somewhere Between chronicles experimental Japanese pop | February 4, 2021 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen looks into Light in the Attic's latest entry in its Japan Archival series.
| Detroit Space Rock City: Third Man Collects Michigan Shoegaze | September 28, 2020 |
Jordan Ryan Pedersen daydreams about Third Man's new collection of 90s Michigan shoegaze.
| The Best Reissues & Compilations of 2009 (New Testament) | December 14, 2009 |
I strolled through the books of Job to unfold and open bibles/ instead of hopin’ on revivals. V/A: Hyperdub, 5 — 5 Years of Hyperdub [Hyperdub] This wasn’t supposed to happen–what with Internet-era Jeremiahs prophesizing the demise of regionalism and the end of localized movements. Steve Goodman and company intuitively understood that change could come […]
| The Best Reissues & Compilations of 2009 (Old Testatament) | December 10, 2009 |
In no particular order. Old stuff today, new stuff later. Amadou & Mariam–The Magic Couple [Wrasse] Best-Of compilation culled from Amadou & Mariam’s 1997-2001 material, in which the divinely gifted Malian blind couple honed the style seen on sacred earth-opus, Welcome to Mali. Coldplay-endorsed, NPR-approved, and the darling of every critic cognizant of the word, […]
