November 8, 2018

Reviews

Gabby's World - "Beast On Beast" | Album Review

November 8, 2018

Reviews

Gabby's World - "Beast On Beast" | Album Review

Beast on Beast is an emotionally dense album that hides under playful songwriting and Gabby’s airy and effortless vocals that drive home the accessibility to Gabby’s inner world and life

November 7, 2018

by: Patrick Pilch

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Super Unison - "Stella" | Album Review

November 7, 2018

by: Patrick Pilch

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The trio’s sophomore effort is a sleek approach to melodic hardcore. Stella is filled with sweeping hooks and a revamped sound, as the album’s production value is kicked into high gear with the help of veteran engineers Jack Shirley and Steve Albini.

November 5, 2018

by: Huw Baines

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Upper Wilds - "Mars" | Album Review

November 5, 2018

by: Huw Baines

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This record drives home the euphoria of rock songs that make your pulse quicken once their hooks get under your skin. For all its otherworldly ambition, its greatest achievement hails from closer to home

November 1, 2018

by: Chris Jones

Reviews

Stove - "'s Favorite Friend" | Album Review

November 1, 2018

by: Chris Jones

Reviews

Stove - "'s Favorite Friend" | Album Review

The difference here is that he is pushing just a little further, testing his limits just a little more than we are used to. And that’s what makes this record truly special, that it proves Hartlett can maintain his sense of identity while stepping out into the unknown.

October 31, 2018

by: Chris Prod

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C.H.E.W. - "Feeding Frenzy" | Album Review

October 31, 2018

by: Chris Prod

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C.H.E.W. - "Feeding Frenzy" | Album Review

Accompanying all this fury, is some of the most inventive hardcore I’ve heard over the past few years. In a genre that all too easily retreats back into familiar tropes, Feeding Frenzy feels like it’s barely being contained, brimming with creativity and aggression.

October 30, 2018

by: rob cleveland

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IAN SWEET - "Crush Crusher" | Album Review

October 30, 2018

by: rob cleveland

Reviews

IAN SWEET - "Crush Crusher" | Album Review

Crush Crusher is IAN SWEET’s intensely intimate followup to an ongoing narrative of interpersonal relationships and self-examination, weighing in on the absurd interactions one has in their 20-somethings, in what consistently feels like the end of an era.

October 29, 2018

by: Dylan Pennell

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Mountain Movers - "Pink Skies" | Album Review

October 29, 2018

by: Dylan Pennell

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Mountain Movers - "Pink Skies" | Album Review

Not only are these songs wild and woolly like the finest psychedelic throwbacks of recent years, but they also manage to make the heroic playing on display completely devoid of the masturbatory masculinity that can sometimes co-opt even the most credible albums

October 26, 2018

by: Patrick Pilch

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Public Practice - "Distance Is A Mirror" | Album Review

October 26, 2018

by: Patrick Pilch

Reviews

Public Practice - "Distance Is A Mirror" | Album Review

Public Practice convene for one of the most exciting punk releases of 2018. The band overrides punk tropes with maleable danceability, channelling Wharf Cat label-mates Bush Tetras and the best of DC’s Sister Polygon Records.

October 23, 2018

by: Katixa Espinoza

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Landowner - "Blatant" | Album Review

October 23, 2018

by: Katixa Espinoza

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Landowner’s record Blatant serves as a reminder that through self-awareness, empathy, and passionate aggression, one can unlearn desensitization and act upon on it within personal boundaries.

October 22, 2018

by: Chris Prod

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Warm Bodies - "Warm Bodies" | Album Review

October 22, 2018

by: Chris Prod

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Warm Bodies - "Warm Bodies" | Album Review

Warm Bodies, the eponymous debut LP of the Kansas City group, is an exhibition in the bizarre. It’s weird to say about an art punk record with as many hooks as oddities as Weird Bodies, but it is undeniably hardcore and rips extremely hard.

October 19, 2018

by: Ryan Bollenbach

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Mount Eerie - "(After)" | Album Review

October 19, 2018

by: Ryan Bollenbach

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(After) is a live recording between the release of Mount Eerie's previous two albums, A Crow Looked At Me, an album-length elegy recounting the time surrounding the passing of his wife Geneviève Castrée, and the subsequent Now Only, which hits more as a collection of vignettes and meditations about his life with his wife before, during, and after his time with her.

October 18, 2018

by: Torrey Proto

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Bilge Rat - "Pal" | Album Review

October 18, 2018

by: Torrey Proto

Reviews

New Haven, Connecticut-based trio Bilge Rat’s second full length Pal finds the band continuing to scrape away at the bottom of the barrel to reveal murky and desolate places. Now a three piece, Bilge Rat sound dangerously locked in with a sharpened focus.

October 17, 2018

by: Chris Jones

Reviews

Guerilla Toss - "Twisted Crystal" | Album Review

October 17, 2018

by: Chris Jones

Reviews

Guerilla Toss - "Twisted Crystal" | Album Review

Guerilla Toss’ Twisted Crystal picks up where last year’s GT Ultra left off, mining the sounds of new wave and psychedelia while staying true to their noisy roots.

October 16, 2018

By: Allison Kridle

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Slothrust - "The Pact" | Album Review

October 16, 2018

By: Allison Kridle

Reviews

The album is a serious kicker as it contains jostling melodies, lyrical webs, and delightful fuzz. The majority of Slothrust’s songs start with offering you a small bite, and once you figure out you want to taste all the flavors, you wait around for a couple of seconds and fill up on the whole meal.

October 15, 2018

by: Thrin Vianale

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Nighttime - "Hand In The Dark" | Album Review

October 15, 2018

by: Thrin Vianale

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Nighttime - "Hand In The Dark" | Album Review

Her debut album Hand in the Dark is the result of a two year long recording endeavor, in a small Vermont town from which the artist hails.

October 12, 2018

by: joseph barsness

Reviews

Gatwood - "Gatworld Vol. 1" | Album Review

October 12, 2018

by: joseph barsness

Reviews

Gatwood - "Gatworld Vol. 1" | Album Review

Gatworld Vol. 1 is the fuzzy, cozy, and brief solo anthology of Two Inch Astronaut’s Matt Gatwood. If I hadn’t been informed of the project’s single authorship prior to listening, I would take Gatwood to be a tight-knit 5-piece.

October 11, 2018

by: Kris Handel

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Milked - "Crawling Passed" | Album Review

October 11, 2018

by: Kris Handel

Reviews

Milked - "Crawling Passed" | Album Review

Crawling Passed is the second Milked full length from former Geronimo! front man Kelly Johnson with help from former bandmates over the 30 minutes of this release. Johnson stretches out here musically with crunching garage punk to delicate acoustic hazy numbers in equal measure.

October 10, 2018

by: Rebecca Satellite

Reviews

Ribbonhead - "I Must Have Peace, And This Is The Only Way" | Album Review

October 10, 2018

by: Rebecca Satellite

Reviews

Ribbonhead - "I Must Have Peace, And This Is The Only Way" | Album Review

To the surprise (and delight) of fans, Ribbonhead sneakily released an EP this week. Engineered and mixed by Dylan Piskula of fellow heavyweight noisemakers DEN, the album was tracked live, and manages to convey the brute force vitality that fans have come to expect.

October 9, 2018

by: Chris Prod

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Negative Scanner - "Nose Picker" | Album Review

October 9, 2018

by: Chris Prod

Reviews

Negative Scanner - "Nose Picker" | Album Review

Shifting from pulsating staccato beats to driving power chords that deliver the most danceable kind of catharsis (a la Wire), it’s impossible not to be enamored by the hooks that permeate Nose Picker.

October 8, 2018

by: Lydia Pudzianowski

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David Nance Group - "Peaced And Slightly Pulverized" | Album Review

October 8, 2018

by: Lydia Pudzianowski

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David Nance Group - "Peaced And Slightly Pulverized" | Album Review

His mastery of what seems like popular music’s entire catalog, back and front, is a common factor in all of his work, and he flexes his muscles again on Peaced and Slightly Pulverized, his third album in as many years.