Living Dream - "Absolute Devotion" | Album Review
Fib - “Heavy Lifting” | Album Review
Credit - "The Last Few Years" | Album Review
Teether & Kuya Neil - "YEARN IV" | Album Review
Florry - "Sounds Like…" | Album Review
Blood Monolith - “The Calling of Fire” | Album Review
Various Artists - "True Names: A Benefit for Trans Youth" | Album Review
Thanya Iyer - "TIDE/TIED" | Album Review
Kinski - "Stumbledown Terrace" | Album Review
Viagra Boys - "Viagr Aboys" | Album Review
Black Country, New Road - "Forever Howlong" | Album Review
At this point, the only thing we can really expect from Black Country, New Road is to always be surprised. It must have been a challenge to rediscover their identity as a band, but they’ve pulled off their reinvention with grace, beauty, and intention, and created a record bursting with passionate ambition.
Model/Actriz - " Pirouette" | Album Review
While Dogsbody’s combination of high-tension dance grooves and rattling screech proved an excellent simulation of pleasure and terror, it left a lingering question: how would a band with a sound so distinct keep it up? The resounding answer presented by Model/Actriz’s follow-up Pirouette, confidently and beautifully.
Shannon Wright - "Reservoir of Love" | Album Review
Bedridden - "Moths Strapped to Each Other's Backs" | Album Review
Amiright? - "Husk of a Body" | Album Review
In every city’s music scene, there’s always that handful of bands that seem to be everywhere. Portland, Maine’s Amiright? has been one of those very bands for almost a decade. On Husk of a Body, the band takes their angular, cursive style of indie rock, pumps it full of depth, fuzz, and color, and drives that new sonic perspective into a lot of really interesting new directions.
SPELLLING - "Portrait of My Heart" | Album Review
SPELLING—the solo project of Chrystia Cabral—armed herself with a swarm of musicians from a 31-piece orchestra for her 2021 release The Turning Wheel; the impetus for the well-rounded, sonic alchemist that Cabral has morphed into. Portrait of My Heart represents what SPELLING does best: delivering the unexpected.
Funeral Commercial - "Dead Before I Die" | Album Review
Akron, Ohio’s Funeral Commercial brilliantly meld the angst and emotion of post-rock, shoegaze, math rock, and midwest emo on their most ambitious full-length project to date. On Dead Before I Die, Funeral Commercial are at their best, expressing the emotions that come with grief and loss in all extremities.