Category: Reviews

Dusted Reviews Music from Burden of Proof

https://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/724112281658621952/dust-volume-nine-number-seven Chuck Johnson — Music from Burden of Proof (All Saints) Chuck Johnson has long been a master of eerie pedal steel atmospherics, building shadowy cloudscapes out of shifting, resonating…
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Featured on Bandcamp Daily

Original article here Chuck JohnsonBalsams Chuck Johnson Oakland, California Balsams Chuck Johnson GO TO ALBUM Merch for this release:Compact Disc (CD), Vinyl LP, Cassette Along with serving as a mile marker…
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“The Cinder Grove” reviewed at Pitchfork

Playing to the pedal steel’s strengths of subtlety, The Cinder Grove’s mood slides toward grief without any hard signaling. The restorative serenity of Balsams may have transmitted a sense that “everything’s going to…
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“Rain Shadow” LP reviewed at Pitchfork

Original article here. Golden RetrieverChuck Johnson Rain Shadow Jonathan Sielaff, Matt Carlson, and Chuck Johnson share an apparent aversion to sharp edges and hard surfaces. For more than a decade, Sielaff and…
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Saariselka Debut LP for Temporary Residence

There is an old Norse myth that says the great northern glaciers stored energy until they burst with fluorescent light, creating the Aurora Borealis. Saariselka is inspired by the meeting…
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