LANTERN "Black Highways and Green Garden Roads" LPLantern Black Highways and Green Garden Roads LP (Sophomore Lounge, 2016) Lantern is a collaborative rock 'n' roll band between musicians Emily Robb and Zachary Devereux Fairbrother, both of Philadelphia, backed by Montreal import Christian Simmons (also of Sheer Agony). With a slew of releases since 2010, ranging from lo fi gutter folk to full on garage melters for labels like Bathetic and Night People, Lantern is what rock 'n' roll was loud, oozy,

Co-Released by Hanson Records and Helicopter

RIYL: Tommy Wright III (originally Street Smart label-mates in the mid '90s

Robert Wyatt

as the ‘Wave Of Alienation’ sweeps us into an electrically charged no-man’s land

a reassembling of the soul through instinctive and unique guitar-delia

Heart or Brain

Joshua Abrams entered into a new phase of his creative life

conjuring whiffs of early-1990s indie art-pop

released by Goner in 2004

Domenico Crisci delivering direct and raw analogue techno

and the feeling of the whole album makes for an often entrancing series of songs that have an overall similarity while also showing differences -- the piercing

"It’s been almost two years since the release of predecessor Elizabethan