Truth Cult - "Walk The Wheel" | Album Review
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Helvetia - "The Beach At The Edge Of The World"
We can’t overstate the importance of Helvetia, a constant favorite for well over a decade. The impact of its sound and style, the structure, finesse (as well as lack of finesse), has left a profound impression on what this era’s psychedelic music can be. The Beach At The Edge Of The World is a prime example of Helvetia at its absolute best.
Mother Tongues - "Love in a Vicious Way" | Album Review
Shalom - "Sublimation" | Album Review
The collaboration of Ryan Hemsworth’s (Quarter-Life Crisis) electronic music specialty and Shalom Obisie-Orlu’s emotional value produced Shalom’s incredibly solid debut album, Sublimation. The two are said to have “worked seamlessly” as the original seven tracks turned into Hemsworth’s encouraged twelve.
The Lentils - "Hello Jane Goodall, Are You Listening?" | Album Review
Gorgeous - "Sapsucker" | Album Review
Gorgeous is certainly one of the most interesting acts in the scene, a two-piece who has begun to twist the basic principles of math and indie rock, pulling the threads all the way until the seams reach their absolute limit. On a first listen of Sapsucker, what you’re most struck by is most likely the duality of angular guitar and crisp drums.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Florry - "The Holey Bible"
Some bands just sound like they are up for a good time. Florry are one of those bands. Led by frontperson Francie Medosch, Florry continue to let loose with a rootsy folk/country blend and some truly incisive and often times devastating lyricism on the Philadelphia based band's second full length, The Holey Bible.
Powerplant- "Grass" | Album Review
Across their various efforts, including the awesome Stump Soup, Powerplant seem to shift sonically with an anxious and unknowable energy. That may be, as Grass demonstrates, because they feel time endlessly ticking away and the only way to make it matter is to embrace one’s whims in a battle against this ceaseless march toward obsolescence.
Chat Pile & Nerver - "Brothers In Christ" | Album Review
Something arises from hell, attempting to crawl its way into heaven – only to find that the god is just as terrifying. Nerver and Chat Pile are bonded by blood on their 2023 split EP, Brothers in Christ. Hailing from Missouri and Oklahoma, among the plains it’s impossible to ignore titanic billboards that scream “HELL IS REAL”.
Guided By Voices - "Welshpool Frillies" | Album Review
Guided By Voices has had a very busy forty years, though their thirty-seven albums only prove that you can have quantity without wavering quality. Welshpool Frillies arrived almost exactly six months to the day after their last album, La La Land, after a prolific run of eight albums in the last three years.
Silver Car Crash - "Shattered Shine" | Album Review
Shattered Shine finds the group at an existential crossroads — on a personal level, the quartet is at the end of their early twenties, grappling with a heightened sense of self-awareness and chasing their dreams. Meanwhile, at a macro level, they’re witnesses to climate destruction, societal collapse, and the ever-present sense of impending doom.
One's A Crowd - "Fictorian Era//Bedroom Pomp" | Album Review
Wireheads - "Potentially Venus" | Album Review
After going through the motions of writing songs as normal for various other projects, Wireheads bandleader, Dom Trimboli realized that the songs he was now writing were going to be Wireheads songs. It was time to get the band back together. Potentially Venus picks up where Wireheads left off while remaining its own thing sonically.
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Silicone Prairie - "Vol. II"
The sense of freedom that reigns supreme on Vol. II is immediately apparent. It’s that exploration (along with Ian Teeple’s songwriting) that make up the heart of the record. He’s content to choogle along in a warped and weird world of progressive bedroom pop, distorted post-punk, glam-tinged power-pop, alien dream-pop, and lo-fi psych.
Boris & Uniform - "Bright New Disease" | Album Review
The Alchemist - "Flying High" | Album Review
Navy Blue - "Ways of Knowing" | Album Review
Now a fresh signee at Def Jam, Sage Elsesser’s dropped his major-label debut Ways of Knowing, a clear-eyed distillation of his effortless, heady lyricism and deep emotional intelligence. His lyrical trademarks are his introspection, emotional storytelling, and focus on personal transformation grounded in the lessons and trauma of family life.
Being Dead - "When Horses Would Run" | Album Review
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Snōōper - "Super Snōōper"
Super Snōōper toughens up the band’s sound. The recording lends depth and metallic sharpness for maximum wallop; Blair Tramel’s voice is brought more to the front of the mix, and gains range and power. With this more straightforward sonic palette, an array of Snōōper’s best material holds up: taut, funny, and ribboned.