Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: High Vis – ‘Blending’
With their sophomore breakthrough, the London quintet sonically merge a gruff hardcore foundation, the melodicism of Brit pop, and shimmering ‘80s post-punk, all while placing themselves at the center of a collision course with dealing with your shit.
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Recommended Album: björk – ‘fossora’
As with all things björk, to begin again is a matter of evolving reinvention on her “biological techno” album.
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Recommended Album: EXCIDE – ‘Deliberate Revolver’
The earth-shattering sounds of the past’s hardcore and metal gods as well as the future shape of the scene being transformed through the Caroline band’s rumblings.
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Recommended Album: Alex G – ‘God Save the Animals’
The latest effort from Alex G is tangible evidence that the closer the the Philly indie shape-shifter is to us, the closer we are to something we can’t quite certainly define.
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Recommended Album: Mindforce – ‘New Lords’
The breakdowns – while still falling down like metallic axes and hammer – call for bigger revolutionary anthem in their battle against societal waste on the Hudson Valley melodic hardcore band’s sophomore LP.
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Recommended EP: They Are Gutting a Body of Water & A Country Western – ‘An Insult to the Sport’
A promising split between two rising artists who’ve been quietly prolific in the background of the indie DIY scene, but maybe not for long…
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Recommended Album: Sudan Archives – ‘Natural Brown Prom Queen’
Brittney Park is a in a class all her own in the multi-instrumentalist’s uncanny sophomore composition of R&B, rap, electronic and pop futurism.
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Recommended Album: No Devotion – ‘No Oblivion’
On their sophomore effort, the band led by Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly and remnants of lostprophets hits restart and refutes all nihilism in a pristine peer into the darkest lucid dreams.
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Recommended Album: The Callous Daoboys – ‘Celebrity Therapist’
The Atlanta collective’s second LP is a gloriously over-saturated approach of grinding metalcore, math rock, experimental pop, noise, funk, and blues, and emo sleaze to confront hypocritical principals of dogma and existential bedlam.
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Recommended EP: Big City – ‘Liquid Times’
The Vancouver band is only two members, but unlock a multiverse with their blurring noise-pop sound on their debut EP.
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