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Candy Andy / Crimson Blue - "You & Me" | Album Review

Candy Andy / Crimson Blue - "You & Me" | Album Review

A split release is a pretty nuanced and intimate gesture. Hopefully the respective halves are different enough to make the whole full-bodied, but cohesive enough to merit pairing. They bring out the best in each other without being redundant. You and Me perfectly embodies these ideals.

Spectral Voice - "Necrotic Demos" | Album Review

Spectral Voice - "Necrotic Demos" | Album Review

When Spectral Voice’s debut was released in 2017, they had five demos and two splits out in the world. By the album’s release they had perfected their concoction of death-doom metal. This strategy has not changed in the following years, part of what makes the Necrotic Demos compilation more compelling than it ought to be.

Soft Blue Shimmer - "Heaven Inches Away" | Album Review

Soft Blue Shimmer - "Heaven Inches Away" | Album Review

On Soft Blue Shimmer’s debut album, Heaven Inches Away, the band crank up the fuzz, becoming less coltish and more stoic. Where their early work felt like a forgotten cut from the soundtrack to 10 Things I Hate About You, their latest plays more like a diegetic sound drifting in the background of a Greg Araki-directed scene.

Mourn - "Self Worth" | Album Review

Mourn - "Self Worth" | Album Review

Catalonia band Mourn have been making a name for themselves within the indie rock scene from quite a young age. The band members were in their teens when they released their self-titled debut album in 2015 on Captured Tracks. Mourn has continued to expand their post-punk sound and their evolution truly shows on Self Worth.

Allegra Kreiger - "The Joys of Forgetting" | Album Review

Allegra Kreiger - "The Joys of Forgetting" | Album Review

Waiting moments comprise an overwhelming majority of Allegra Kreiger’s The Joys of Forgetting. Awaiting good times sounds pretty terrific - so long as you ignore the desolation around you and the wreckage of the near and far past. For some, that is impossible. Call us empaths and/or annoying but these days, it’s tough to call us wrong.

We Are Joiners - "Clients + Carriers" | Album Review

We Are Joiners - "Clients + Carriers" | Album Review

Working with just an old BOSS BR1180 8-track, We Are Joiners recorded two EPs earlier this year. The New York independent label Totally Real Records saw potential in these: Clients + Carriers have been gathered into a double album, released on December 4th, and the decision makes sense upon listening.

Wren Kitz - "Early Worm" | Album Review

Wren Kitz - "Early Worm" | Album Review

Wren Kitz’s music is tense with contrasts: with his sweet falsetto, he’s capable of working within traditional folk song structures; as a student of tape recordings, he also dissolves himself into mysterious noise. Early Worm, is carefully constructed, going from more traditional forms to the hiss of lo-fi feedback immediately afterwards.

Airhead DC - "Busted Sermon" | Album Review

Airhead DC - "Busted Sermon" | Album Review

Contrary to Airhead DC’s previous release, the reflectively dense Crush Hi, the goal was to create something simple, dreamy, and capable of being recorded on a four-track tape recorder, he said. To his credit, the resulting effort, Busted Sermon, which is just six songs long, accomplishes that rather admirably.

Laundromat - "Green EP" | Album Review

Laundromat - "Green EP" | Album Review

In just three tracks, Laundromat manages to conjure full-flavored textures that bely the snappiness of the EP. Lo-fi production ties the triptych together so it’s a testament to his innovation that so many textures and layers are evident on Green. Loops and harmonies worm themselves through the tracks, often from unexpected points.

Necrot - "Mortal" | Album Review

Necrot - "Mortal" | Album Review

The ambition of Necrot is high and can be read as pompous going into the album cycle for Mortal: create a death metal classic. All the necessary components in the genre are here. The riffs are endless and plentiful; there’s plenty of blast beats to pound against your brain; and of course the lyrics deal in the particular tropes of nihilism.

Dr Sure's Unusual Practice - "While Aus Burns" | Album Review

Dr Sure's Unusual Practice - "While Aus Burns" | Album Review

Dougal Shaw, the mastermind behind Dr Sure’s Unusual Practice, released Scomo Goes To Hawaii on Christmas Eve. Written from the perspective of the PM on holiday, it was the jab at Morrison we all needed. Now, Shaw returns with While Aus Burns - an EP serving as an ever-relevant accompanying work.

Global Charming - "Mediocre, Brutal" | Album Review

Global Charming - "Mediocre, Brutal" | Album Review

The quartet make sharp and witty post-punk that discusses the banality of everyday existence. They utilize repetitive rhythm to reflect the consistent monotony of their daily routines. What saves Global Charming – and their audience – from being subsumed by the emptiness are their sharp jolts of guitar licks and self-aware satire.

Chronophage - "Th'pig'kiss'd Album" | Album Review

Chronophage - "Th'pig'kiss'd Album" | Album Review

Th’Pig’Kiss’d Album is their second full-length and the chaotic lo-fi spirit remains intact. It was released by the new Dutch label Soft Office, started by members of the Lewsberg (as well as Cleta Patra). Chronophage share the same DIY and post-punk tendencies as their label bosses, but overall they skew to lighter and fuzzier jangle.

Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - "May Our Chambers Be Full" | Album Review

Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - "May Our Chambers Be Full" | Album Review

Emma Ruth Rundle’s music has always walked the edge of doom metal. Her dark lyrics and melancholic solo outputs have seemed likely to lead to an inclusion of doom metal. So it is no surprise that the folk singer has teamed up with Louisiana sludge/doom metal band Thou for the collaborative album May Our Chambers Be Full.

Oneohtrix Point Never - "Magic Oneohtrix Point Never" | Album Review

Oneohtrix Point Never - "Magic Oneohtrix Point Never" | Album Review

Lopatin’s latest effort, Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, revolves around the concept of the once mighty medium of radio. This is not only apparent sonically, but also through “Cross Talk” interludes which divide the album into four segments corresponding to different dayparts of radio programming.