Christian music veteran Ayiesha Woods is quickly approaching her twenty-year mark making music, which began with an independently released debut in 2004. While some of her career has stopped and started due to the priority of raising a family, she has admirably maintained a semi-regular and high-quality music release schedule. All of this was accompished after leaving Gotee Records in the late 2000's to go the independent route, which has its well-known pros and cons...

Half-Handed Cloud may be one of the more obscure major label Christian artists out there, but the brainchild of John Ringhofer is nonetheless fairly prolific. He's been releasing quirky full-length albums through Asthmatic Kitty for more than twenty years now and shows no signs of stopping. Two-and-a-half years after his 60-track Christmas album, the next step of Ringhofer's musical journey comes in the form of Flutterama.

Let's be honest: if you're reading this, there's a pretty good chance that this album is not for you. Per the norm for Half-Handed Cloud, Flutterama doesn't utilize traditional verse-chorus-verse...

John Van Deusen makes dangerous music. As in, to listen to his music is to risk being sucked into the gravitational pull of challenging, poetic, and moving art that quietly insists you lean in. It's an invitation that's dangerous because it would be easy to dismiss with our modern on-the-go style of consuming music. Easy to discount, unless you intentionally slow down and read between the lines. His four-part I Am Origami series ends here with the mammoth twenty-one-track Marathon Daze. Ultimately, it is an epic amalgam of the three offerings that preceded it. Mixing indie pop-rock with a punk ethic, his nakedly authentic lyrics, and emotive vocals, JVD covers the gamut of existential anxiety. Along the way, he pauses to take aim at topics such as his own fickle heart, the threats of industry and empire, fatherhood, addiction, and love...