Sonny Falls - "Stoned, Beethoven Blasting" | Album Review
Goon - "Hour of Green Evening" | Album Review
Goon have the cure for what ails us. Sadly, it’s not systemic reform across both public healthcare and our two-party system. It’s their new album, Hour of Green Evening, an 11-track smorgasbord of earnest folk and lush psych rock that’ll have you feeling something beyond white-hot rage and/or emotional impotence.
Ty Segall - "Hello, Hi" | Album Review
Kal Marks - "My Name Is Hell" | Album Review
For future fans of Kal Marks, My Name is Hell will likely serve as a starting point, as it displays the band at their most accessible yet. Since its inception, Kal Marks has gone through many changes. My Name Is Hell is their first official release since Let The Shit House Burn Down in 2019, and in that time, there have been a few changes in the band.
Wombo - "Fairy Rust" | Album Review
Fairy Rust is the second full length release from Kentucky based 'art-punk' trio Wombo, widening the scope of the band’s angular and twisted powers that have grown immensely in a relatively short amount of time. Wombo have always relied on inventive scrambling of song forms, but there is a bit more development and depth at play this time.
Chat Pile - "God's Country" | Album Review
Chat Pile have made an album that’s as terrifying to listen to as it is deeply lyrically unsettling. To call the bowel-loosening low end of God’s Country the century’s sludgiest is not hyperbole; they deploy a lethal arsenal of detuned sonic bombardment that is nauseating, beautiful, punishing, an ideal foil for the ravings of Raygun Busch.
Mapache - "Roscoe's Dream" | Album Review
An undeniable electric current runs through the music of Mapache, the LA-based cosmic folk duo comprised of songwriters Clay Finch and Sam Blasucci. Their fourth album, Roscoe’s Dream, is their most fully-realized release to date, a sprawling opus that captures the coastal bohemian charm of their distinct California sound in its purest form.
Pictoria Vark - "The Parts I Dread" | Album Review
There’s no denying the cult status Park has grown over the past few years. A status so remarkable, it captured the attention of acclaimed independent label Get Better Records, who chose to release Pictoria Vark’s debut LP The Parts I Dread. On it, she does nothing but deliver one of the best indie rock debuts of the year.
Viagra Boys - "Cave World" | Album Review
It is everything you could want a Viagra Boys album to sound like. The thing about Cave World is that it probably won’t convince anyone to change their beliefs, but it’s not trying to. What it does do is point out how absurd some of these things are. It does this perfectly and on top of that it lets the listener have a great time while it does this.
Frances Chang - "Support Your Local Nihilist" | Album Review
For Frances Chang, psychedelia can be found in the crosshairs of art rock, freak folk, bedroom punk, and more in a soupy mess of modified consciousness. On her first full-length under her own name, support your local nihilist, all those influences coagulate into an unapologetically honest and intense expression of her irreplicable vantage point.
Attia Taylor - "Space Ghost" | Album Review
Bad Breeding - "Human Capital" | Album Review
Anarcho-punk outfit Bad Breeding are back with their fourth full-length release, Human Capital, through One Little Independent Records and Iron Lung Records. The album is chalked with aggressive layers of sound wrapped up in lyrics that address societal problems which have been ushered in through years of suffering under capitalism.
Fime - "Sweeter Memory" | Album Review
Fime’s Sweeter Memory is a rock album in the way rock albums rarely get made anymore, one that revels in its influences without succumbing to them. The album subsumes the band’s influences – power pop, country, psychedelia, surf rock, emo, and punk – and then produces good songs which sound uniquely themselves.
Quelle Chris - "DEATHFAME" | Album Review
2nd Grade - "Wish You Were Here Tour Revisited" | Album Review
Originally released in 2018, the record was apparently slept on until Double Double Whammy re-released it with new studio recordings by the band, but also included the demos that comprised the first record. Songwriter and bandleader Peter Gill originally recorded all the instruments on it, but the re-release features full band arrangements.
Pusha T - "It's Almost Dry" | Album Review
The Virginia veteran has pushed his coke laced raps and menacing flows through decades, staying solid through a quickly changing commercial rap landscape. Four years after the release of the Daytona he returns with his excellent fourth record It’s Almost Dry, a celebration of form and technique as consistent in tone as it is in quality.
Momma - "Household Name" | Album Review
Obsessions with bending the mainstream into 90s culture and reaching Cobain-levels of fame have dominated Momma’s new direction, with not only the overarching album message, but also with their music videos. Momma seems to be wearing that kind of influence and curiosity on their sleeves, in terms of championing the 1990s.
PACKS - "WOAH" | Album Review
Black Midi - "Hellfire" | Album Review
Black Midi continually evolve to the theatricality of the spectacle. They will stop at nothing to conjure and bring us for the spectacle. At long last, Hellfire is their studio album level spectacle; available for home surround sound systems, car CD players, tape decks, or the transient online comatose system of the internet.