math rock

  • Stream: Fang Island- Major This new album from the Rhode Island-based group Fang Island could not have come at a better time of year. These psychedelic math rockers have a penchant for face melting guitars and anthemic, singalong choruses that evoke the summer months, and their new full length album

  • Pink Magick by GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! An intense show of instrumental power on the new GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! album, Pink Magick. From what I understand, it’s the Northampton band’s third full-length album. If you’re into intricate drums with driving beats and colorful layers of math rock guitar leads, then

  • Stylistically, I think Tripper is an exciting return to Hella’s old, stripped down form. Some fans may see it as a bit of a regression, but that’s only half of the truth. The duo throws in some overdubbed guitars and bass, and manages to utilize some of the

  • Tripper by Hella Back to duo status, California’s Hella recently dropped its fifth album, Tripper. The band has allowed fans to stream the album on Bandcamp, which is a nice trend I’m seeing with all new Zach Hill-releated projects. Of course, I hope this give people an incentive

  • Earlier in the month, California math rock group Hella announced that they would be returning with a new album. On their last LP, 2007’s There’s No 666 In Outer Space, the group boasted five members in their lineup. For the new album, entitled Tripper, they’re back to

  • Admittedly, I wasn’t a huge fan of Maps & Atlases latest album Perch Patchwork. Maybe the band’s sweet and friendly approach to the intricacies of math rock wasn’t sitting well with me at the time I listened to this album. It certainly doesn’t sound that bad

  • highway to health by pneu I don’t know who the crazy mullet-haired boy is in the picture below, but he sure makes for a good album cover–especially when that cover is fronting an album of insanely tight instrumental rock. The band is pneu, and the album is highway