July 11, 2018

Reviews

Dumb - "Seeing Green" | Album Review

July 11, 2018

Reviews

Characteristic syncopation, loose talking vocals, break-wrist strumming patterns, dogged lyrics, and glimmers of jangly earworm melodies make Dumb’s Seeing Green a truly profound record.

July 10, 2018

by: Gabriela Montiel

Reviews

Gingerlys - "Gingerlys" | Album Review

July 10, 2018

by: Gabriela Montiel

Reviews

This fast paced album is doused in indie pop and twee influences in addition to post-punk percussion and dream pop synths. Mendoza’s bright meandering vocals are emphasized by the ethereal echoes, 50s inspired melodies, and vociferous hammering guitar.

July 9, 2018

by: Kris Handel

Reviews

Lawn - "Blood On The Tracks" | Album Review

July 9, 2018

by: Kris Handel

Reviews

Lawn - "Blood On The Tracks" | Album Review

Blood on the Tracks is the debut full length of New Orleans duo Mac Folger and Rui de Marguilles (with help from Nicholas Corson on drums), and one that takes you on a ride that takes many detours through various genres.

July 6, 2018

by: Louis Marrone

Reviews

Bodega - "Endless Scroll" | Album Review

July 6, 2018

by: Louis Marrone

Reviews

Bodega - "Endless Scroll" | Album Review

Their debut album, Endless Scroll is a diatribe against both consumerism and technology– the hold that both have taken on society, and how people can’t seem to escape them, despite them resulting in what the band considers to be injustices.

July 3, 2018

by: Huw Baines

Reviews

Sam Evian - "You, Forever" | Album Review

July 3, 2018

by: Huw Baines

Reviews

Sam Evian - "You, Forever" | Album Review

You, Forever is an understated, beautifully crafted record that aims to continue the grand rock tradition of socially-conscious songs that still transport you to a road hugging the coastline. Largely, it succeeds in doing so.

July 2, 2018

by: Sarah Kimura

Reviews

Littlefoot - "Lavender" | Album Review

July 2, 2018

by: Sarah Kimura

Reviews

The lyrics of self-discovery and maturity feel rooted in the sway of surf rock, and instead of feeling driven to surf atop the waves, listeners feel the pull and push to accept the tides.

June 29, 2018

by: gordon phillips

Interviews, Reviews

Late Bloomer - "Waiting" | Feature Interview

June 29, 2018

by: gordon phillips

Interviews, Reviews

Late Bloomer - "Waiting" | Feature Interview

Waiting, Late Bloomer’s aptly titled debut album for 6131 Records arrives today, June 29, 2018, almost four years exactly after the release of their prior full-length, Things Change.

June 29, 2018

by: Katixa Espinoza

Reviews

June Gloom / Rock Solid - "Subletter / Something Solid" | Album Review

June 29, 2018

by: Katixa Espinoza

Reviews

June Gloom / Rock Solid - "Subletter / Something Solid" | Album Review

Reminding us of one’s own past lessons in vulnerability and the observance of the body vs. self in reaction to those occurrences in present time.

June 28, 2018

by: Hannah Liuzzo

Reviews

gobbinjr - "Ocala Wick" | Album Review

June 28, 2018

by: Hannah Liuzzo

Reviews

At first glance, gobbinjr’s Topshelf Records debut ocala wick reads like a collection of Nickelodeon-era silly bop theme songs for pals: it’s playful, inviting, charming, simple, and fun. But with a more sincere listen, the songs reveal themselves to be carriers of much more grave and weighty messages.

June 27, 2018

by: nathan springer

Reviews

Gentle Heat - "Dissolve" | Album Review

June 27, 2018

by: nathan springer

Reviews

Gentle Heat is composed of seasoned musicians, yet the project is fresh enough that you can sense its members figuring out each other’s melodic and rhythmic sensibilities. Dissolve is filled with a nervous energy that is tempered by laid back vocal delivery and a knack for pretty melodies.

June 26, 2018

by: Joshua Hoey

Reviews

Julian - "Real Distance" | Album Review

June 26, 2018

by: Joshua Hoey

Reviews

The five songs that comprise Real Distance, which unfold in just over ten minutes, combine the best aspects of American lo-fi and Scottish post-punk into something powerful and quite special.

June 25, 2018

by: Jonathan Bannister

Reviews

Flasher - "Constant Image" | Album Review

June 25, 2018

by: Jonathan Bannister

Reviews

Flasher - "Constant Image" | Album Review

Flasher is very much their own band and could become just as important as those titans of the scene. They don’t sound like much of anyone you know from DC. There’s no doubt they know and listen to those band but they write and play hook filled melodic songs that compel you to move.

June 22, 2018

by: Jeremy Zerbe

Reviews

Sunwatchers - "II" | Album Review

June 22, 2018

by: Jeremy Zerbe

Reviews

Two years after their rollicking debut, Sunwatchers have returned with a second album overflowing with swirling psychedelia. On II, the Brooklyn quartet is tighter than ever, with a clearer use of controlled chaos than on their self-titled debut.

June 21, 2018

by: Dalvin Aboagye

Reviews, Premieres

Floating Room - "False Baptism" LP | Post-Trash Premiere

June 21, 2018

by: Dalvin Aboagye

Reviews, Premieres

Floating Room - "False Baptism" LP | Post-Trash Premiere

Their sophomore outing builds on the intimate soundscape they introduced us to in their 2016 debut LP Sunless. The vibes are almost mystical; the synth-heavy beats that permeate each track manage to find their way into every nook and cranny of your memory.

June 21, 2018

by: Kris Handel

Reviews

Dusk - "Dusk" | Album Review

June 21, 2018

by: Kris Handel

Reviews

On their debut self-titled album, Dusk, take us on a trip back to some folk inflected roots via the garage and a bit of a punk spirit. There’s a bit of an older feel in many ways to this record and there are moments that recall a bit of Gram Parsons-esque classicism.

June 19, 2018

by: Patrick Pilch

Reviews

Doffing - "Tower Of Ten Thousand Miles" | Album Review

June 19, 2018

by: Patrick Pilch

Reviews

Doffing - "Tower Of Ten Thousand Miles" | Album Review

Tower of Ten Thousand Miles is the first proper full-length from the Montreal quartet, and their most impressive release yet. On their latest, Doffing deftly recall some of the finest post-hardcore, indie rock and punk of the past 20-something years.

June 18, 2018

by: Sacha Kingston-Wayne

Reviews

Tang - "Super Happy" | Album Review

June 18, 2018

by: Sacha Kingston-Wayne

Reviews

Paired with spare acoustic guitar, the end result is reminiscent of all things Phil Elverum, with whom Johnson shares an almost uncomfortably intimate delivery.

June 15, 2018

by: Dalvin Aboagye

Reviews

Snail Mail - "Lush" | Album Review

June 15, 2018

by: Dalvin Aboagye

Reviews

Snail Mail — spearheaded by 18-year-old Maryland native Lindsey Jordan — has come out of the gate running with a debut offering in the form of Lush. Jordan, the perfect example of the new breed of DIY performer, straddles the line between feeling mundane and personal in this record of youth in transition.

June 14, 2018

by: glennon f. curran

Reviews

Yazan - "Hahaha" | Album Review

June 14, 2018

by: glennon f. curran

Reviews

The lyrical content has the trajectory of radical traditions in philosophy: the recognition of humanity’s deep seeded flaws, the transformative possibility of human potential, and the imperative to live this finite life ethically and with passion right now.

June 13, 2018

by: Brian Manley

Reviews

Palberta - "Roach Goin' Down" | Album Review

June 13, 2018

by: Brian Manley

Reviews

Palberta - "Roach Goin' Down" | Album Review

The New York trio’s follow-up to 2017’s Bye Bye Berta expands on their scribbled notes on tune arrangement, deconstructing pop into their own contorted delivery of lo-fi flings. Roach Goin' Down presents 22 songs that flail with an on-the-spot schizophrenia of ideas and movement.