Priests - "The Seduction of Kansas" | Album Review
Greer's voice has a complex chromaticity that takes shape in an exceptional way, communicating exactly the sense of uneasiness and political and social instability at the heart of the title of the work. Priests is the missing and "screaming" link in a scene that also needs showy and strong bands, at least in their choices, to assert themselves.
Glued - "Cool Evil" | Album Feature
Stuck - "Three Songs" | Album Review
Boon - "All Of Us Laughing" | Album Review
Patio - "Essentials" | Album Review
Essentials is the first full length record from New York trio Patio and it follows the dark, brittle and fairly brilliant yet somewhat hesitant EP Luxury that was released in 2016. Patio tread in the ever-deep waters of post-punk and Northeast DIY scene and quite frankly stand out at near the top of that pack of bands which is quite an achievement.
Community College - "Comco" | Album Review
Beige Palace - "Leg" | Album Review
Their new album Leg is an irreverent kaleidoscope of noise rock, post-hardcore, musique concrete, spoken word, chamber music, and general auditory mayhem. The thing about this record is how its tone can change on the head of a dime, despite the songwriting heavily using repetition and slow development of ideas.
Sharkmuffin - "Gamma Gardening" | Album Review
Not For You - "Drift" | Album Review
This Is Lorelei - "The Mall, The Country" + "The Dirt, The Dancing" | Album Reviews
The Mall, The Country and The Dirt, The Dancing are transcendent, alive, breathing. The double EP swells in ambient solemnity and contracts in melodic elegance, as pieces of coherent pop brilliance are encased between swirling panoramic experiments, highlighting Amos’ acute sense of sequencing and pacing.
Westkust - "Westkust" | Album Review
Cheekface - "Therapy Island" | Album Review
Half Thought - "Half Thought" | Album Review
Oozing Wound - "High Anxiety" | Album Review
Coaster - "Stuck With It" | Album Review
Adrianne Lenker - "Abysskiss" | Album Review
Stephen Malkmus - "Groove Denied" | Album Review
State Champion - "Send Flowers" | Album Review
The world that exists in Louisville’s State Champion’s Send Flowers is one cloaked in profound absurdity. It’s a place where you might lose your soul in “a gentleman’s hall in Tijuana” and have the manager offer to send it back home to you if he finds it, where cicadas harmonize with dial tones, where you can “unplug the stars from the sky.”