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Pinch Points - "Moving Parts" | Album Review

Pinch Points - "Moving Parts" | Album Review

In the midst of the melee of their opening number, “Ouch !,” Pinch Points announce, "Pinch Points are here." Maybe it's the Australian accent, or maybe their tone of voice, but you can't help but feel they're giving you the finger when they say it. That finger does not drop throughout all nine of the songs on their new album, Moving Parts, out on Roolette Records.

Choral Reef - "Gotta Get To Work" | Album Review

Choral Reef - "Gotta Get To Work" | Album Review

Jangly guitars, sharp hi-hats, and the sonic equivalent of that “Oh god, I shouldn’t have had that third cup of coffee” feeling come together flawlessly on Choral Reef’s debut EP. Appropriately titled gotta get to work, the tape energetically confronts the painful reality of what it means to be an artist in a world where your worth is often defined by what you do to make money.

Spiral Wave Nomads - "Spiral Wave Nomads" | Album Review

Spiral Wave Nomads - "Spiral Wave Nomads" | Album Review

Spiral Wave Nomads reach a little further, drawing influence from free improvisation, jazz, noise, raga, folk, and ambient music, mapping out a vast galaxy of guitar swirls, bass bellows, and drum storms. Eric Hardiman and Michael Kiefer combine their powers to quilt together a delicious menagerie of tunes.

Spencer Radcliffe & Everyone Else - "Hot Spring" | Album Review

Spencer Radcliffe & Everyone Else - "Hot Spring" | Album Review

The singer-songwriter plays his cards with a deep authenticity of authorship and puts his creative soul in dialogue with themes such as death, loneliness, and war. Radcliffe's vision, through the delicate sounds of guitar, cello, and effects created by the eccentric pedals, makes us feel in relation to the earth, to the terrestriality.

Imperial Wax - "Gastwerk Saboteurs" | Album Review

Imperial Wax - "Gastwerk Saboteurs" | Album Review

Over the course of eleven years and six albums, Keiron Melling, Dave Spurr, and Pete Greenway formed behind Mark E. Smith as the final and longest iteration of The Fall. After Smith’s passing, they recruited Sam Curran for vocal duties and formed Imperial Wax, the name being a nod to the first album they all played on together as The Fall, and have put out their first album Gastwerk Saboteurs.

Acquaintances - "8 1/2 Lives" | Album Review

Acquaintances - "8 1/2 Lives" | Album Review

A sort-of supergroup, Acquaintances boasts members who have played with The Ponys, The Poison Arrows, Don Caballero, Ted Leo + the Pharmacists, Titus Andronicus, and Thumbnail. The band’s latest album sounds like a group of lifers jamming in a room. They know that they’re now the older guys in the crowd, but they can still write spiny, intelligent, driving rock ‘n’ roll.

So Totally - "In The Shape Of..." | Album Review

So Totally - "In The Shape Of..." | Album Review

On the whole, in the shape of... doesn’t latch directly onto any single genre. So Totally comically tagged “fuck a genre” on the album’s Bandcamp page. They’ve drawn influence from a wide range of subgenres and experiment with creating massive walls-of-sound, incorporating field recorded clips, and blurring contrasted audio qualities together.