Protomartyr - "Relatives In Descent" | Album Review
What can an album like Relatives in Descent offer during these dark times? Does it need to offer anything? Like us, it’s an album that is scared, confused, trying to make sense of senseless things. Relatives in Descent is an album concerned with it all. It’s an album that states what it knows and isn’t afraid to wade into what it doesn’t.
Twin Ponies - "Twin Ponies" | Album Review
Chain and the Gang - "Experimental Music" | Album Review
Emily Yacina - "Heart Sky" | Album Review
Faith Healer - "Try ;-)" | Album Review
Helium - "Ends With And" | Album Review
Blacklisters - "Dart" | Album Review
As the byproduct of a studio session for Too Pure Singles Club, Dart captures the band in their natural state of chaos particularly attractive in the indefatigable percussing, dissonant guitar ambling, and onomatopoeic caterwauling, which often sounds more like a second dissonant guitar than any human vocal emanation.
Lina Tullgren - "Won" | Album Review
Puppy Problems - "(((((demos))))" | Album Review
Acid Baby Jesus - "Lilac Days" | Album Review
Climax Landers - "Climax Landers" | Album Review
Death From Above - "Outrage! Is Now" | Album Review
Chelsea Wolfe - "Hiss Spun" | Album Review
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - "Son of a Lady" | Album Review
Snail Mail - "Habit" | Album Review
Lindsey Jordan has a way of remaining mellow through the entire album of ups and downs, steady through her self-reflections. Her dreamy voice lingering through each line, the over-arcing feel of the record is best described as sleepy and yearning, her voice delicately crushing your heart at every corner.
Darto - "Human Giving" | Album Review
Human Giving is a paranoid, tense, and at times breathtakingly lush record that feels like the culmination of an evolution that started with the band’s beginnings in 2012. Their latest is more careful and deliberate, setting focus on the journey and filling its landscapes with warm tones over a more calculated build.
Yankee Bluff - "Yanked" | Album Review
While Yanked may tap out around the 20-minute mark, the six songs offer no shortage of sonic variety. One of Yankee Bluff’s preeminent strengths is the contrast between Helmis and Dionne’s songwriting styles. Where Helmis leans toward sunny, anthemic arrangements of distorted open chords, Dionne doubles down on melancholic, off-kilter picking riffs
Elf Power - "Twitching In Time" | Album Review
Fans of Elf Power are going to find plenty to enjoy as a band should sound fairly confident in themselves after releasing twelve records previously. For a band whose sound was never defined by the Elephant 6’s unabashed love of all things ‘60s, they sound here like they’ve never aged, frozen in time but not defined by it.
