Onion
Shannon & The Clams
Easy Eye Sound
Shannon & The Clams is hurtling toward a decade together as a band, however the music that it creates sounds just as exciting and fresh as ever. Though the quartet draws much of its inspiration from the girl group, garage pop stylings of the past, it continues to develop a sound distinctly its own. The band’s fifth LP, Onion, finds the group digging deep and putting out some of its most intimate, introspective work yet. Whether grappling with the 2016 Ghost Ship fire tragedy or its own personal dramas, the new album showcases the Clams at its most vulnerable and powerful simultaneously. (Simon Weedn)