Rose City Band - "Sol Y Sombra" | Album Review
USA Nails - "Feel Worse" | Album Review
Amyl & The Sniffers - "Cartoon Darkness" | Album Review
Over the past 10 years, Amyl and The Sniffers have pushed the aesthetics, ethos, and energy of contemporary punk music. Their previous album, Comfort To Me, saw huge success on all fronts in 2021. On Cartoon Darkness, we hear the band ruminating on that success, what has come with it, and what’s coming next.
Fust - "Big Ugly" | Album Review
Frog - "1000 Variations on the Same Song" | Album Review
Taxidermists - "20247" | Album Review
The Unfit - "Disconnected LP” | Album Review
The Unfit are not here to play games. The PNW quartet have a knack for punching the listener in the face with blaring guitars, pounding kick drums, and vocalist Jake Knuth’s full, spitting ferocity. Disconnected is their first full-length release, a collection of early EPs spanning from 2020 to present.
Cameron Winter - "Heavy Metal" | Album Review
Bambara - "Birthmarks" | Album Review
Guided By Voices - "Universe Room" | Album Review
The point is that Universe Room has something for any GBV fan. It shows that the band is exactly where they want to be: not repeating themselves but never losing touch with what makes them Guided by Voices. This is a band that does its own thing on its own terms, never caring what anyone else is doing, and Universe Room is the perfect showcase of that.
Cryogeyser - "Cryogeyser" | Album Review
Lambrini Girls - "Who Let the Dogs Out" | Album Review
PFFU - "ghostass" | Album Review
Ghoulies - "Shafted By The Algorithim" | Album Review
Prostitute - "Attempted Martyr" | Album Review
Prostitute rage, screech, and tear through track after track of industrial indebted noise rock with not just ferocity but also exasperation. Each hit of the drums and slash of the guitar sounds as if it’s the band's last. Even as the album ends, the band desperately ask the listener to see the horrors before them through the raw desperation bleeding out of each note they play.
Freckle - "Freckle" | Album Review
For Freckle—the new collaborative project between garage rock pioneer Ty Segall and Color Green guitarist Corey Madden—their self-titled debut is a means for experimentation while embracing their musical roots. Freckle is playful, coated with a lively texture of traditional rock melodies and bohemian percussion—a meeting place where both Segall’s recent instrumental endeavors and Madden’s breezy psych-folk are generously kissed by the Californian sun.
