Mitski - "Puberty 2" | Album Review
Mal Devisa - "Kiid" | Album Review
Milo+Stove - "Oceanography" | Album Review
Deaf Wish - "Pain" | Album Review
Gay Sin - "Gay Sin" | Album Review
Pile - "You're Better Than This" | Album Review
G.L.O.S.S. - "Trans Day of Revenge" | Album Review
Big Business - "Command Your Weather" | Album Review
Frameworks - "Smother" | Album Review
Bichkraft - "Shadoof" | Album Review
Useless Eaters - "Relaxing Death" | Album Review
Lately Sutton has grown increasingly ambitious musically, slowly mutating from a fairly straight-forward power chord-plucking garage punk band into something that's more difficult to categorize. That doesn't mean he has slowed down, though. Relaxing Death is Useless Eaters' second release this year, coming only a few months after the excellent 10” EP Temporary Mutilation.
Operator Music Band - "Matérielmusik" | Album Review
The relationship between the technological and the natural, the mechanical and the spiritual, is just one of many impressions emitted from the sophomore effort of Brooklyn’s Operator Music Band. Matérielmusik, while only spanning three tracks in eight minutes, contains the pulp and pit of a whole universe insides its blips and grooves.
All People - "All People" | Album Review
Taken together, All People and Community Records are purposeful projects enacted in furtherance of building a cultural exchange where people can create, produce, and share music. All People’s third full length All People listens like the spiritual cornerstone of this vision, reminding people to step outside of themselves for periodic renewal.
Melvins - "Houdini," "Stoner Witch," & "Stag" (Third Man Records Reissues) | Album Review
Deerhoof - "The Magic" | Album Review
Jackal Onasis - "Big Deal Party" | Album Review
Minikin Presents: Afterthoughts | Album Review
Brooklyn micro label Minikin, have released their first compilation: Afterthoughts; a lovely 14-track record for which the proceeds go to Brooklyn music education platform We Make Noise. Minikin, formed in 2015, have brought together scene stalwarts Bethlehem Steel, Vagabon, Long Beard, gobbinjr, Half Waif, among others, and the result is a lovely, meandering set of songs that fit well together without being overly similar.
Sumac - "What One Becomes" | Album Review
Weaves - "Weaves" | Album Review
Weaves is a key figure on small but beloved Toronto-based label Buzz Records, and their unpredictably spasmodic yet undeniably pop-friendly songs have gathered them an intense worldwide fanbase, one that’s especially staggering for a band with only a couple of EPs and a string of sporadically released singles to their name.