rock
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The UK’s Vallenfyre brings together a slew of different death metal styles on this sophomore record of theirs, and feeds them through some incredibly heavy, pummeling production.
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Ibibio Sound Machine’s debut is the beginning of a journey that fuses the sounds of afrobeat and highlife with electronics.
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Cold Specks, the musical project of Canadian singer-songwriter Al Spx, has been slowly increasing visibility lately, most notably by contributing vocals to the new Swans album To Be Kind. Now, she is about to release her sophomore record, Neuroplasticity, and has dropped the first single in the form of “Absisto,
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Chicago doom metal outfit Bongripper has a new album on the way titled–wait for it–Miserable. Yes, Miserable. I don’t think I’ve ever been excited for misery, but there’s a first for everything. You can pre-order the album here. On this track from the new album,
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Singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten and her band hammer out a loud but patient ballad on “Your Love Is Killing Me.” Without doing it intentionally–I don’t think–the instrumentation on this one works more like a drone than it does indie or folk rock. Sharon kicks things off with
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The Black Keys drop their most bloated and tame album to date with Turn Blue.
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With fellow reviewer Elliot Quinn, I talk about the fifth full-length album from Portland blackened folk outfit Agalloch.
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It’s that time of the month, isn’t it? I’M TALKING ABOUT ALL OF THESE RECORDS IN BRIEF. I WISH I HAD THE TIME TO REVIEW THEM IN FULL ON THEIR OWN IN APRIL, BUT SUCH IS LIFE. HERE’S THE LIST: PROTOMARTYR – UNDER THE COLOR OF OFFICIAL
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People come up to me all the time, I mean, literally every day, and they ask me if I know of an album out there that gratuitously mashes a myriad of different pop tunes together in a violent, overwhelming display of digital editing. Now, I can finally say “yes” to
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Damon Albarn’s latest record may be slightly passionless and relentlessly dreary, but he delivers some stand-out songs throughout the tracklist here.
