Danny Watts is to acoustic strings what winter frost is to tree branches: an unexpected adornment, at odds with what you thought you knew, but too breathtaking to question. With "Angels In The Snow," the Downtown Patriots step into a snow globe of uncharted soundscapes, leaving behind the grungey scrape of amplifiers for something quieter, but no less expansive. It’s a curveball—a swerve from...

The Patra band’s self-titled debut album "Timeless Afternoon" hits with prog rock patience, psych rock colour, blues grit and a collector’s vinyl pulse. Some albums feel like a group chat that finally stopped buffering. Timeless Afternoon’s self-titled debut album comes packed with songs that waited decades to reach listeners, but there is nothing sleepy about it. This is Greek progressive rock with stained fingers, warm tubes,...