Listening to Shadow Person’s new album, "Chronic Disappointment", feels like staring into one of those fun-house mirrors, only to realize with a slow, creeping dread that the glass isn't distorted at all. This is the new normal, a warped reality we’ve simply adjusted to. The project, the thoughtful and unnerving musical identity of Will Chatham, doesn’t just hold this mirror up to the world;...

There is a specific kind of atmospheric pressure that descends in December, and with Mick J. Clark dropping his single "It's Christmas Party Time ", the barometer just shattered. Clark isn’t exactly a stranger to the heavy machinery of the music industry what with his major publishing ties and that serious brush with the Grammy conversation for his album Causes but here, he isn’t...