rock
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Brand New returns with a chilling, despondent sound.
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Primus harkens back to their Frizzle Fry days with the toned-down yet musically inventive title track from their upcoming album, The Desaturating Seven. Above you can see the colorful lyric video for an otherwise dark tale of greedy, menacing oligarchs. The album will be released September 29 via ATO.
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Despite its overture, interludes, and finale, the new(ish) Black Lips album doesn’t quite succeed at being some sort of grand statement. However, the band still has a killer sound and delivers a plethora of great tracks here.
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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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The World Is a Beautiful Place has announced their third album, titled Always Foreign, and with that has come a somewhat divisive lead single. The sound the band goes for here is closer to pop punk than Midwest emo, but I can appreciate it as one of the catchiest songs
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Here’s the second single from Chelsea Wolfe’s heavy new album Hiss Spun. “Vex” has pretty much all the qualities I liked about “16 Psyche,” but I especially love the grim, growled vocals lent by Aaron Turner this time. Hiss Spun is out September 22 through Sargent House.
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The Killers have a new album on the way titled Wonderful Wonderful, and this latest single is a peppy piece of post-punk revivalism that I’m pleasantly surprised to say lives up to that title. The album drops September 22 via Island.
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Nine Inch Nails follows up last year’s Not the Actual Events EP with a moodier and more atmospheric set of tracks, which I don’t find to be quite as well-written or exciting.
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This new Wolf Parade single brings back the visceral rock instrumentation and dramatic lead vocals that made the band exciting in the first place. Cry Cry Cry, their first album in seven years, drops October 6 via Sub Pop.
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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
