art rock
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Sleep Well Beast is The National’s most vibrant and engaging set of songs in years.
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Grizzly Bear returns from a five-year hibernation with a mirror image of their previous album, Shields.
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Thanks to Thin Black Duke‘s lavish orchestration and tour-de-force vocal performances from frontman Eugene Robinson, eminent underground rock outfit Oxbow has delivered a comeback album that leaves me lost for words for all the right reasons.
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Of all the singles to have come out in promotion of Grizzly Bear’s new album Painted Ruins, this latest one strikes me as being the most powerful in terms of composition and instrumentation. You can give it a listen above, along with its video, which offers quite a surreal
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Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters applies the politically charged spirit of his past work to the political landscape of today on his latest release.
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The 20th anniversary reissue of Radiohead’s seminal album OK Computer is coming out later this month, containing of course a remastered version of the album, as well as a bonus disc of b-sides and previously unreleased material. The long passed-over “I Promise” is one of the three unreleased tracks
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London post-punk act HMLTD has released a video for “Music!”, the B-side of last month’s fantastic “To the Door” single, and well, please heed the seizure warning. Hopefully a debut album’s on the way cause these two songs have been interesting to say the least.
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Sincerely, Future Pollution finds Timber Timbre taking their sound in a more synthetic direction without conjuring the mood that made their past couple of albums so alluring.
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Danish experimental rock supergroup Marching Church follows up last year’s This World Is Not Enough with a collection of post-punky jams that seem to have a bit more thought put into them, and just as much passion.
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Preoccupations–formerly Viet Cong–return with a new album and a darker sound.
