October 14, 2024

Reviews

Geordie Greep - "The New Sound" | Album Review

October 14, 2024

Reviews

Geordie Greep - "The New Sound" | Album Review

Geordie Greep’s The New Sound might just be the great sonic flex of the decade so far. I mean flex here in the most literal sense, a muscle flexing. An exposure of the raw strength possessed but one wrought with tension veins popping, skin stretching.

October 11, 2024

by: Chris Coplan

Album of the Week, Reviews

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Feeling Figures - "Everything Around You"

October 11, 2024

by: Chris Coplan

Album of the Week, Reviews

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Feeling Figures - "Everything Around You"

The eleven track LP is a tight, fully distilled "representation of their boundless, idiosyncratic approach to guitar-based music," and one that benefited from being sat on a touch longer. Even that feels like it doesn't fully get at what makes Everything Around You so interesting.

October 10, 2024

by: Cam Harper

Reviews

Wishy - "Triple Seven" | Album Review

October 10, 2024

by: Cam Harper

Reviews

A fast-spinning machine powered by songs that pass through memorable lyrics, addictive hooks, and commendable guitar performances, Triple Seven, the debut album from Indianapolis indie rockers Wishy boasts some serious jewel case appeal.

October 9, 2024

by: John Glab

Reviews

Billiam - "Animation Cel" | Album Review

October 9, 2024

by: John Glab

Reviews

Billiam - "Animation Cel" | Album Review

Billiam’s new record, Animation Cel, feels like trying to catch up without ever succeeding. The demanding directness drags you from one place to another, jostling your body through an overly animated and freaky world, bending in your path and forcing you to dodge out of the way.

October 8, 2024

by: Mark Gurarie

Reviews

All Feels - "This Place Is A Message" | Album Review

October 8, 2024

by: Mark Gurarie

Reviews

All Feels - "This Place Is A Message" | Album Review

On gossamer threads of swirling, arpeggiated guitar lines, synth layers, driving bass, and tight four-on-the-floor drums, All Feels’ This Place Is A Message stakes out territory we should find familiar in 2024, depicting the anxiety of facing collapses both personal and environmental.

October 7, 2024

by: Jonah Evans

Reviews

Mint Field - "Aprender A Ser: Extended" | Album Review

October 7, 2024

by: Jonah Evans

Reviews

Mint Field - "Aprender A Ser: Extended" | Album Review

Aprender a Ser: Extended was recorded at the same time as last year's Aprender a Ser, translated to "Learn to Be". This extended record continues into that realm of learning, gaining the ability to sit with yourself in a calm stillness.

October 4, 2024

by: dan goldin

Album of the Week, Reviews

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: MEMORIALS - "Memorial Waterslides"

October 4, 2024

by: dan goldin

Album of the Week, Reviews

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: MEMORIALS - "Memorial Waterslides"

Memorial Waterslides arrives in immaculate shape, a complex art pop record that slinks, grooves, sputters and squawks, and yet still glows with a humble charm. The brightest pop moments of the record leave sunspots in our mind, as MEMORIALS craft essential and inescapable songs.

October 3, 2024

by: Alice Zakusilo

Reviews

Palehound - "Live at First Congregational Church" | Album Review

October 3, 2024

by: Alice Zakusilo

Reviews

Palehound - "Live at First Congregational Church" | Album Review

As Palehound, El Kempner has taken their indie-drenched “journal rock” to music festivals worldwide. Live at First Congregational Church, captured live while opening for Adrianne Lenker of the band Big Thief, is a testament to the transformative power of Kempner's music.

October 2, 2024

by: Kris Handel

Reviews

Merce Lemon - "Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild" | Album Review

October 2, 2024

by: Kris Handel

Reviews

Merce Lemon - "Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild" | Album Review

With her third full length album, Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild, Merce Lemon and her bandmates have crafted a record of rolling country landscapes amidst heart-wrenching and cutting lyricism.

October 2, 2024

by: Ben Hohenstatt

Reviews

SunDog - "About You" | Album Review

October 2, 2024

by: Ben Hohenstatt

Reviews

SunDog found its soft side. The Anchorage, Alaska-based power trio tried something different on About You, their third and latest full-length album released on Dog Yard Records. The band embraced structure, technology, sentimental sounds and a protracted recording process.

October 1, 2024

by: Ljubinko Zivkovic

Reviews

Naima Bock - "Below A Massive Dark Land" | Album Review

October 1, 2024

by: Ljubinko Zivkovic

Reviews

Naima Bock - "Below A Massive Dark Land" | Album Review

Naima Bock presents ten detailed, thoroughly sophisticated and meticulously arranged compositions in the form of songs, making them oh so easy on the ear on one hand, and something to ponder about on the other.

October 1, 2024

by: Rainy Maple Sugar Candy

Reviews

Local H - "Whatever Happened To P.J. Soles? (20th Anniversary Remaster)" | Album Review

October 1, 2024

by: Rainy Maple Sugar Candy

Reviews

Local H - "Whatever Happened To P.J. Soles? (20th Anniversary Remaster)" | Album Review

The band has released nine studio albums, P.J. Soles was the fifth among them in 2004. This record made its way back to earth at exactly the right moment. The news cycle and tumultuous election season almost did us in, but here come Local H making sure everyone’s cool.

September 30, 2024

by: Matt Watton

Reviews

Pack Rat - "Life's A Trap" | Album Review

September 30, 2024

by: Matt Watton

Reviews

Pack Rat - "Life's A Trap" | Album Review

Originating as the solo project of Chain Whip’s Patrick McEachnie, the band’s second album feels like a group effort. In contrast to the hardcore-egg punk of Chain Whip, Pack Rat answers what would the Ramones sound like if they were teleported to the present-day Pacific Northwest.

September 30, 2024

by: Jon Shina

Reviews

The Fruit Trees - "We Could Lie Down In The Grass" | Album Review

September 30, 2024

by: Jon Shina

Reviews

The Fruit Trees - "We Could Lie Down In The Grass" | Album Review

Sunshine and good weather doesn’t always correlate with good vibes and warm thoughts. For LA's The Fruit Trees, location doesn’t seem to be a large factor in their DNA. We Could Lie Down in the Grass feel more winter night in Scandinavia than a warm sunny beach day.

September 27, 2024

by: Dominic Acito

Album of the Week, Reviews

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Tropical Fuck Storm - "Inflatable Graveyard"

September 27, 2024

by: Dominic Acito

Album of the Week, Reviews

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Tropical Fuck Storm - "Inflatable Graveyard"

Live releases usually get second billing when compared to studio recordings, but every now and then, a live album captures the elusive energy of a great live show, making it a fan favorite. Tropical Fuck Storm's new live album, Inflatable Graveyard, is one such album.

September 26, 2024

by: Devin Birse

Reviews

Xiu Xiu - "13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips" | Album Review

September 26, 2024

by: Devin Birse

Reviews

Xiu Xiu - "13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips" | Album Review

The statement that comes with 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips is simultaneously more direct and more ambiguous. This is a rock and roll record designed by people who do not want to make a rock and roll record.

September 26, 2024

by: Kris Handel

Reviews

Fantasy of a Broken Heart - "Feats of Engineering" | Album Review

September 26, 2024

by: Kris Handel

Reviews

Fantasy of a Broken Heart - "Feats of Engineering" | Album Review

Feats of Engineering, the debut album from Fantasy of a Broken Heart, the duo of Bailey Wollowitz and Al Nardo, has been in the works for a long time and is now ready to announce itself with panache. The record is unpredictable yet completely fascinating.

September 25, 2024

by: Giliann Karon

Reviews

Little Bit - "Talk A Blue Streak" | Album Review

September 25, 2024

by: Giliann Karon

Reviews

Little Bit - "Talk A Blue Streak" | Album Review

Under the name little bit, Hannah Liuzzo's EP talk a blue streak provides the soundtrack for driving endless stretches of highway tucked between sky-scraping mountains on a quest for self-discovery.

September 25, 2024

by: Anika Maculangan

Reviews

Land of Talk - "Performances" | Album Review

September 25, 2024

by: Anika Maculangan

Reviews

Land of Talk - "Performances" | Album Review

With their most recent album, Performances, we are introduced to a newly fleshed out dimension, filled with more down tempo and choral decay. The band has graduated from their prior lounges of vibrato and turned to more mature gamuts of syncopated pulsing.

September 24, 2024

by: Chris Coplan

Reviews

Lerryn - "As A Mother" | Album Review

September 24, 2024

by: Chris Coplan

Reviews

South East London's own Lerryn warns us that taking As A Mother at face value is "a mistake, and slightly reductive." The five-track effort is far more universal than mere motherhood (even as Lerryn wrote the EP around her own pregnancy).