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Long Beard - "Means To Me" | Album Review

Long Beard - "Means To Me" | Album Review

Means to Me is a meditation on the notions of place and time. It was written after a series of upheavals in Bear’s life: uprooting to tour the country with Japanese Breakfast, then moving back to her hometown of New Brunswick, New Jersey to complete her degree, only to find all of her friends and past loves long gone.

Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron - "Lost Wisdom, Pt. 2" | Album Review

Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron - "Lost Wisdom, Pt. 2" | Album Review

As is maybe to be expected, love and loss are at the very heart of Lost Wisdom pt. 2—while Phil Elverum’s late wife Geneviève is never mentioned by name, her presence lingers across every note. The album leans into its own contradictory nature, pairing spacious silences with hurried guitar drones and measured poetry with unbridled grief.

They Are Gutting A Body Of Water - "Destiny XL" | Album Review

They Are Gutting A Body Of Water - "Destiny XL" | Album Review

Douglas Dulgarian’s lo-fi tape project has really evolved with this one, so trode the fuck in. Destiny XL is twenty-six minutes of speaker-flooding shoegaze, ICE-cutting vignettes and grippingly dense hooks with enough kick to throw the meanest of console cowboys out of their digital saddles.

Fern Mayo - "Week of Charm" | Album Review

Fern Mayo - "Week of Charm" | Album Review

Week of Charm is the sophomore release from Fern Mayo, the nom de plume of Katie Capri, following 2015’s Happy Forever EP and one that delivers a fuller more developed sound. Capri’s debut was a mix of agitated guitar pop along with sparse semi-ballads, whereas this new release is filled with lush and wave-like atmospherics.

Guerilla Toss - "What Would The Odd Do?" | Album Review

Guerilla Toss - "What Would The Odd Do?" | Album Review

Their last album saw the band embracing a slightly funkier sound, and this latest EP, What Would The Odd Do?, is probably the band’s most accessible music to date. They’ve rounded out some of the more aggressive, dissonant edges, but remain as engaging as ever, constantly finding new ways to surprise you and pull you in.

Sean Henry - "A Jump From The High Dive" | Album Review

Sean Henry - "A Jump From The High Dive" | Album Review

A Jump From The High Dive signals a change in Henry’s approach to songwriting. The melodies are as strong as ever, but his pop-forward approach is now married with a more patient ear for detail. Where Fink felt like it sprang out of Henry’s fingertips, A Jump From The High Dive feels more considered and carefully crafted.

Great Grandpa - "Four of Arrows" | Album Review

Great Grandpa - "Four of Arrows" | Album Review

Self-described as “the record they’ve always wanted to make,” Great Grandpa’s Four of Arrows feels like a major pivot and major milestone for the band. Four of Arrows pushes their sound into a more dynamic and inherently riskier realm given the clean production and wider range in musicality.

Horror Movie Marathon - "Good Scare" | Album Review

Horror Movie Marathon - "Good Scare" | Album Review

Horror Movie Marathon is the project of Will Rutledge, a Connecticut-turned-New York musician, and Good Scare is his debut album. It wouldn’t be fair or accurate to call Horror Movie Marathon a solo project, however, as Good Scare features Alex Molini (Philary, Stove, Pile) and Will Ponturo on piano/keys and drums/percussion respectively.

Pictorial Candi - "Secret Salts" | Album Review

Pictorial Candi - "Secret Salts" | Album Review

Secret Salts drips with isolation, but of a different sort. Through cresting synths and bare drum sequences singer Candelaria Saenz Valiente embodies sadness as though falling apart, no yearning or desperation. Loneliness doesn’t even do it justice. Emptiness. Fragility. Stepping up to the plate regardless. Unwinding.

Tomb Mold - "Planetary Clairvoyance" | Album Review

Tomb Mold - "Planetary Clairvoyance" | Album Review

“Dig deep and destroy yourself” Max Klebanoff growls on album opener “Beg for Life”. Over the next 40 minutes you can do just that. Planetary Clairvoyance is the band’s most interesting, layered, and tightest album to date. It’s a bright light in a slew of killer death metal records in 2019. One you’ll find yourself returning to again and again.

Sun Organ - "Sun Organ" | Album Review

Sun Organ - "Sun Organ" | Album Review

Sun Organ has managed to churn out yet another magnetically creepy, satisfyingly chunky stew of tracks with their latest self-titled release. What sets this release apart from the rest of their catalog is its ability to juxtapose heavy darkness and ethereal beauty, a contradiction that nullifies either extreme discomfort or overt ease.

ESSi - "Vital Creatures" | Album Review

ESSi - "Vital Creatures" | Album Review

The duo’s volatile punk uneasily clamors like Shimmer and Brainiac, but aesthetically revels in the wake of Pill’s malaise and the radiant aura of No Age. ESSi mimic the latter-most group’s ability to sound much more than a two-person group, as Jessica Ackerley’s bottom heavy guitars flesh out ESSi’s strikingly atmospheric low end.

Gatecreeper - "Deserted" | Album Review

Gatecreeper - "Deserted" | Album Review

Deserted stakes up easily against its predecessor in the band’s discography, 2016’s Sonoran Depravation in both mastery of form and devastating impact of execution. The most distinguishing factor between the two is the slightly clearer production on Deserted, which is not surprising given who was involved in the post-production.

Angel Olsen - "All Mirrors" | Album Review

Angel Olsen - "All Mirrors" | Album Review

On her fourth album and fourth great evolution, Angel Olsen accompanies an instantly classic outpouring of artistic expression with gothic-synthesizers, some horns, and a colossal assembly of strings. An immense, dramatic, and shattering retrospective on feeling, All Mirrors is massive in both its presentation and statement.