Trash Kit - "Horizon" | Album Review
The technical prowess of Trash Kit, displayed in their ability to remain tight and clean throughout their most chaotic compositions, is enough to make Horizon an album worth praising. But Horizon accomplishes the difficult task of being an album that is immediately accessible, requiring no intense mental focus to appreciate and enjoy.
Uranium Club - "The Cosmo Cleaners" | Album Review
With their new offering The Cosmo Cleaners, the Club take a more surgical approach to their trademark antsiness, tying themselves into tighter and more intricate knots than ever before. The group creates a compelling musical landscape solely out of sharp edges and punchy hits -- smooth sonic textures are truly few and far between.
Tony Molina - "Songs From San Mateo County" | Album Review
Rong - "Wormhat" | Album Review
Double Grave - "Ego Death Forever" | Album Review
The Flaming Lips - "King's Mouth: Music and Songs" | Album Review
Julia Shapiro - "Perfect Version" | Album Review
Big|Brave - "A Gaze Among Them" | Album Review
Black Midi - "Schlagenheim" | Album Review
Black Midi’s sound on Schlagenheim is sophisticated, yet they surprise their listeners with their youth. They have studied the progression of rock through a different timeline. They are the prodigious and glitched studio musicians of the late Aughts who have ran amok over the annals of their country’s pervasive post-punk history.
Kota The Friend - "Foto" | Album Review
Crag Mask - "Bend" | Album Review
One of the most impressive things about Bend is how nimble the songwriting is. Listen to the transitions; the band is able to get from points A to B in clever ways that never sound fussy or overly technical. Keys shift and time signatures change, and if you aren’t keeping a close watch, you won’t even notice.
Nonlocal Forecast - "Bubble Universe!" | Album Review
It’s been four months since Nonlocal Forecast’s Hausu Mountain debut and picking the right words to describe its brilliance has become nearly impossible. As the sidestep project of Fire-Toolz’ Angel Marcloid, Nonlocal Forecast showcases the Chicago-based producer’s remarkably deft hand in electronic novelty on Bubble Universe!
Viking Moses - "Cruel Child" | Album Review
Keiji Haino & Sumac - "Even for just the briefest moment / Keep charging this “expiation” / Plug in to making it slightly better" | Album Review
Returning not only to their incredibly long-winded album and track titles, but also to their improvisational, doom-steeped metal, Keiji Haino & SUMAC return with Even for just the briefest moment, an album split into four tracks, capturing the collaborators' behemothic live performance from Tokyo in 2017.
Haybaby - "They Get There" | Album Review
Summer Cannibals - "Can't Tell Me No" | Album Review
Can’t Tell Me No is the fourth full length from Summer Cannibals, now a quartet hailing from Oregon and although the roaring guitars and pummeling rhythms remain, this record shows a little bit more nuance in sound. Jessica Boudreaux’s songwriting maintains a certain toughness, but there is a bit more bounce and softening of edges.
Palehound - "Black Friday" | Album Review
Cave In - "Final Transmission" | Album Review
The first new album in eight years from beloved MA band Cave In should be a cause for celebration and in a way Final Transmission is still a chance to celebrate. Only, with the passing of Caleb Scofield who was tragically killed in an auto accident in 2018 the album has become the celebration of a life, an honoring and a goodbye instead of a return.
