Charlie - Lines

Charlie - LinesReaders of an "Cool Album of the Day" should see a pattern especially lately. What they would notice is that there is a strong tendency to feature albums of what's commonly known now as the "Americana" genre. This is been my favorite music to listen to for a number of years now. But another genre that I've long enjoyed was the sound of the slick jazz rock bands often known as the "L. A. Sound." Some great music has been produced by that well known

The music feels less performed than summoned

Trinidad marks the Merge debut of this mighty sextet from Austin

Mimi's impromptu acapella videos took TikTok by storm

underpinned by acoustic guitar passages that are skewed so extensively that they become disconnected from their sources

After years of playing drums in other bands

haunting mellotron

'The gift that keeps on giving

(The album has an etching on side 4)

On the four tracks of the original 1994 "Constellation" EP

perfectly captures the bands raw

It didn't take long for somebody to track down original guitarist Frank "Spider" Martinez

Hippo Campus significantly expanded their use of drum machines and synths