Pardoner - "Uncontrollable Salvation" | Album Review
Tinkerbelles - "Confetti At The Bottom" | Album Review
Toadies - "The Lower Side of Uptown" | Album Review
Bless - "Bless" | Album Review
The group’s new self-titled seven-inch leaves little room for wallflowers with singer Luke Reddick’s verbal gyrations. Pleasant as it is to get all dark and downcast, Bless really treats the listener to an energy and movement seldom found nowadays in one all-too-serious post-punk rehash after another.
Alvvays - "Antisocialites" | Album Review
Maneka - "Is You Is" | Album Review
Tera Melos - "Trash Generator" | Album Review
Liars - "TFCF" | Album Review
Old Iron - "Lupus Metallorum" | Album Review
Seattle’s Old Iron is a great example of the variation that’s found its way into every shade of contemporary metal. On their newest album Lupus Metallorum they incorporate the plethora of approaches that made their debut memorable: chugging riffs locked to the bass drum; dissonant melodic leads; and walls and walls of power chords.
Do Pas O - "Join The Fucking Drum Circle" | Album Review
Do Pas O’s debut album isn’t just an LP-length barrage of percussion, though anyone expecting exactly that from Peter Negroponte, best known as the beastly drummer of Guerilla Toss, can’t be blamed. Instead, Join the Fucking Drum Circle is a psychedelic squawk from the inner depths of his strange and beautiful mind.
Clearance - "Are You Aware" | Album Review
Clearance have been releasing the kind of breezy, effortless rock that serves as the perfect backdrop to the end of summer haze for over four years now, and with the release of their 7” single Are You Aware last August, the band proved that they have grown even more adept at stringing together infectious guitar hooks and vocal melodies.
Wet Hair - "The Floating World" | Album Review
Big Walnuts Yonder - "Big Walnuts Yonder" | Album Review
Oh Sees - "Orc" | Album Review
The name change isn’t merely a product of Dwyer’s indecisiveness or dissatisfaction with the “Thee,” but rather reflects the concrete change that’s taken place over the course of a few years’ experimental transition. As evinced by its terse title, Orc aims to cut the fat off last years’ trial runs and introduce the new Oh Sees thesis.
