Description: Experiential Archivistos (wha?) | Something akin to but not quite a music 'zine, a travelogue, a photography/art publication, and an archival home base for our joint projects
It’s been more than a long while since I’ve been able to devote time to Sister’s Dissonance, with several creative projects of my own consuming me the last several years (most pressingly and enjoyably, fiction writing and publishing). But recently, for several reasons, I’ve felt the pull to return to my roots as a music ‘zine writer, and I have come across some really great music that’s causing me to feel the irrepressible urge to shout out about it (which has always been the driving force of this publicati
That said, and as a quick reminder, reviews on this site are not reviews per se but a place to share things that we want to help spread the word about and share with like-minded souls that will possibly (hopefully) have the same visceral reaction and excitement about; we only share things we love, and nothing more. As they say, word-of-mouth is the most powerful mode of communicating, and we are firm believers in engaging in that to help support other creatives.
So here it goes. The first for me to mention in my recently-reemerged-from Sis Diss slumber is The Firmary , a band based in Cleveland by way of LA, Chicago, and Buffalo. They’re a band I came across via a few different avenues that intersected around the same time and happily led me to find and follow them. I really liked what I heard. A lot. And just recently they released Soft Reboot, an EP loaded with equally-solid, fabulous tracks. Not one is a throw away, and after compulsively listening to it many, m