Despite the chill of “Dormant Love,” A Vintage Burden might just be the best summer LP you’ll hear this year—perfect timing.   Full text...

A Vintage Burden's embrace is still emotional, still heartbreaking, still sad, and at times still chilling, but somehow, it's less of an exercise to wrap your arms around it.  Full text...

This album is like a vivid dream of once-lost items falling gently like leaves from a clear blue desert sky: familiar and strange, happy and disconcerting, beautiful and unsettling—and with a deeply trippy soundtrack.  Full text...

Charalambides start out A Vintage Burden by laying out all its cards. Opener "There is no End" features Tom Carter's simple but attention-grabbing rising-and-falling guitar chords coupled with Christina Carter's (apparently the two were formerly married) ghostly vocals. I immediately hope the song's title rings true: There should be no end to music this trance inducing.   Full text...

An outstanding album from the long-running group.  Full text...

A Vintage Burden-- a striking about-face from the mystical abstractions of Joy Shapes-- appears to be the beginning of yet another new chapter in the Charalambides' ongoing, spirit-driven narrative.   Full text...

This is not music that comes to you; rather, it is music that demands a great deal of effort from the recipient.  Full text...