Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended Album: Rachika Nayar – ‘Heaven Come Crashing’
True to its title, the sophomore effort from the Brooklyn-based guitar virtuoso and multi-instrumental is an experience that hits from the heavens and overcomes this earth.
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Recommended Album: Hellrazor – ‘Heaven’s Gate’
The second album from the band led by former Speedy Ortiz guitarist Mike Falcone hears the dream of ’90s grunge and noise rock living on in nightmarish form.
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Recommended Album: Why Bonnie – ‘90 In November’
The debut full-length from the Austin indie rockers with a country charm makes from music the physical sensation of being on a long walk on a balmy day under a sun-stretched sky with memory as your constant companion.
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Recommended Album: Beyoncé – ‘RENAISSANCE’
A celebration of Black dance music spanning across the last several decades that have permeated the culture at large, Queen Bey’s seventh studio album has made that house (and club, and disco scene) her own dance floor.
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Recommended Album: Pool Kids – ‘Pool Kids’
When the Tallahassee emo band goes big, they level up and make a splash on their sophomore effort.
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Recommended Album: Chat Pile – ‘God’s Country’
Splattered noise and unfiltered disgust color over endless blue skies, painting the picturesque American horror on the Oklahoma City noise rockers’ unforgiving debut full-length.
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Recommended EP: SPEED – ‘GANG CALLED SPEED’
The answer as to how fast hardcore’s game will evolve is but one word on the Sydney band’s breakthrough EP.
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Recommended Album: Sonagi – ‘Precedent’
The debut album from the Philly screamo next-gens reinterprets the genre’s chaos as a meditative duality between naturistic violence and its aftermath.
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Recommended EP: Stand Still – ‘In A Moment’s Notice’
Microdosed with anthems in burled riffs and a well-paced headcharge against life’s seasons, the second EP from the Long Island melodic hardcore leaves a timeless imprint.
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Recommended Album: black midi – ‘Hellfire’
Chaos, chaos, and even more chaos, even when it sounds like all the calamity and human destruction in the fantastical tale have reached cease fire in the latest from the experimental art rockers.