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M(h)aol - "Attachment Styles" | Album Review

M(h)aol - "Attachment Styles" | Album Review

Attachment Styles is a noisy, biting evisceration of binary patriarchal culture that crackles with a deep unease disguised as sardonic wit. It’s hard not to start with an examination of the album’s lyrical content because it’s so visceral, but the music – a delicious take on post-punk that’s part Gila Band, part Spray Paint – is equally compelling.

Spice World - "There's No "I" In Spice World" | Album Review

Spice World - "There's No "I" In Spice World" | Album Review

There's No "I" In Spice World is the debut full-length from the Australian jangly indie-pop band Spice World, a record full of spirit and influences both from within its country’s borders and from their neighbors in New Zealand. There's some hazy psychedelic influences that linger and stretch out mixed with nervy pop songs that sparkle.

Vermin Womb - "Retaliation" | Album Review

Vermin Womb - "Retaliation" | Album Review

Retaliation, Vermin Womb’s follow-up to 2016’s Decline turned out to be one of the heaviest releases of 2022. Fans of the band who haven’t heard this release yet will be ecstatic to find this to be not only some of the band’s most unrelenting material, but among of the most chaotic and brutal of last year.

King Tuff - "Smalltown Stardust" | Album Review

King Tuff - "Smalltown Stardust" | Album Review

Now that Kyle Thomas is entering his fourth decade of existence, he has artistically hung up his younger beer soaked baseball cap, and replaced it with an older more used and vintage eccentric hobbit hat from the shire. This new middle aged Thomas has directed his lyrical focus on the nostalgia of his once simpler younger self.

Thousandaire - "Ideal Conditions" | Album Review

Thousandaire - "Ideal Conditions" | Album Review

A stellar collection of nine fuzzy, muscular anthems, Ideal Conditions mines similar ground as their debut – hazy, midtempo slacker rock. Silkworm is an easy reference point; the tracks are driven by a beefy rhythm section with blasts of distorted guitar setting up soaring solos, each song rising to a dramatic crescendo before crashing down.

Guided By Voices - "La La Land" | Album Review

Guided By Voices - "La La Land" | Album Review

Robert Pollard, the frenetically brilliant leader / creator of Dayton’s cult heroes Guided By Voices, writes a lot of songs. A lot of songs, a lot of albums, a lot of music, even a countless array of alter egos. La La Land represents a direct follow-up to Tremblers and Goggles By Rank, or as Pollard says, “somewhat of a companion piece.”

Big Blood - "Weird Road EP" | Album Review

Big Blood - "Weird Road EP" | Album Review

Big Blood have been called psychedelic folk, and freak folk, and other things like “avant-folk” and “gothic country.” Driven by Colleen Kinsella’s powerful, keening vocals and amorphous, hazy instrumentals, the Weird Road EP is the newest installment in a 16-year line of wonderfully wonky songcraft.

Disheveled Cuss - "Into The Couch" | Album Review

Disheveled Cuss - "Into The Couch" | Album Review

On Into the Couch, the second LP under the Disheveled Cuss moniker, Nick Reinhart continues to stay weird in all the right ways. The album as a whole is flush with moments that bait you into thinking a pop hook or familiar change is on the way, yet he manages to zag at every zig, keeping both his melodies and thematic elements surprising. 

Frankie Cosmos - "Inner World Peace" | Album Review

Frankie Cosmos - "Inner World Peace" | Album Review

For Frankie Cosmos’ fifth studio album, growing pains give way to the shaky legs on which the indie-pop quartet takes its first steps into real life. After over a decade at work, their primordial beginnings as a home-based solo project are gone but not forgotten. Inner World Peace totes the patient deliberateness that comes with maturity.

PJ Harvey - "B-Sides, Demos & Rarities" | Album Review

PJ Harvey - "B-Sides, Demos & Rarities" | Album Review

Despite her prolific output, the PJ Harvey archives still boast plenty of rare and previously unreleased material to spare, enough to fill the 6xLP box set. B-Sides, Demos & Rarities, released last year to the delight of hardcore PJ Harvey fans, is all the evidence one needs to crown Harvey one of the greatest songwriters of her generation. 

Che Noir - "The Last Remnants" | Album Review

Che Noir - "The Last Remnants" | Album Review

Che establishes her values around family, the music industry, and people in general; she sets boundaries when she says, "Feed your brothers/When you eat your supper, don't eat with suckers" and means it. The vivid stories of The Last Remnants revolve around stories about family, tragedy, and a talented community ever-growing.