Kamikaze Palm Tree - "Mint Chip" | Album Review
Dylan Hadley and Cole Berliner, the LA duo better known as Kamikaze Palm Tree, are definitely not afraid to dabble with art-rock/pop or to take musical risks. Mint Chip, their second album (and first for Drag City) shows that taking musical risks can pay off if you know what you are doing and have the imagination and capabilities to do so.
Queen of Jeans - "Hiding In Place" | Album Review
Scanning the spectrum of love lost and found, Hiding In Place, the new EP from Philadelphia’s Queen of Jeans, revels in thoughtful exploration. Their first original release since 2018 briefly touches on the stretches of loneliness, excitement, insecurity and resentment inherent to relationships beginning and end.
Collapsed Skull - "Eternity Maze" | Album Review
Pennsylvania’s Collapsed Skull is a new three-piece powerviolence band featuring members of Full of Hell. Their sound on the jaw-dropping debut EP Eternity Maze is a sort of genre-salad that mashes together powerviolence, hardcore, grindcore, death metal, and harsh noise all broken up by hip-hop, spoken word, and acoustic samples.
Pile - "Songs Known Together, Alone" | Album Review
In August of 2021, Pile released an LP perfect for laying under the stars; Songs Known Together, Alone consisting of newly recorded tracks pulled from Pile's massive collection accompanied by a clever change in production. The tracks are all reimagined versions of Pile songs recorded solo by frontman Rick Maguire.
Ty Sorrell - "HomeGrown" | Album Review
The record’s easygoing and nostalgic pop/R&B vibes call up the feeling of leaning back in an air-conditioned booth on a humid summer night. If you stop and listen, you can overhear Ty Sorrell at the next table over, reminiscing and exchanging secret handshakes with the other Richmonders who sit down to catch up.
Lifeguard - "Crowd Can Talk" | Album Review
Action Bronson - "Cocodrillo Turbo" | Album Review
All of Action Bronson’s best work treats music like Calvinball—meticulous and detailed worlds seemingly unspooling in a stream of consciousness. Cocodrillo Turbo is no different, as it loosely ties together a beasts-of-the-wilderness theme through nature show samples and a production palette of fuzzed-out, hungover psychedelia.
Haunted Horses - "The Worst Has Finally Happened" | Album Review
Recorded at Electric Wall in Seattle and mastered by These Arms Are Snakes’ drummer Chris Common, The Worst Has Finally Happened is a tangible document to be added to the Three One G family of relevant punk. Haunted Horses have frequency shaking all around. The punches keep coming, but it is somehow soothing.
Spacemoth - "No Past No Future" | Album Review
Anxiety was getting in the way of Maryam Qudus’ creative work as Spacemoth until she realized she could channel her concerns through her synthesizers. The end result is an impressive debut album for the sought-after analog producer – the 13-track record, No Past No Future, is some of the most potent retro-futurism out there.
Pavement - "Westing (by Musket and Sextant)" (Reissue) | Album Review
In its own manner, compiling Pavement’s “tortured context” comprised of the self-released Slay Tracks 1933-1969, early singles, and flexi-disc cuts made Westing (by Musket and Sextant) a 7" gold mine of exciting dipshit noise whose collage cover and phrases and song titles alluded to its own canon subversion.
Osees - "A Foul Form" | Album Review
After the more experimental endeavors of recent years, A Foul Form both carves out new ground for Dwyer and company to dig into while also calling back to the raucousness and comparative simplicity of Coachwhips and the Thee Oh Sees era. A Foul Form is taut and crackling. It burns white hot; the path it blazes is direct.
Dust Star - "Open Up That Heart" | Album Review
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.