Tim Burgess Typical Music Bella Union Imaginative music made as an antidote for typical days, Typical Music is the sixth solo album from Tim Burgess, frontman of English band The Charlatans. This one is a double set of 22 progressive indie pop [...]
Hot Chip Freakout/Release Domino Records Hot Chip or Hot Chic? The title of Hot Chip’s eighth album references Chic’s classic disco jam, “Le Freak,” as well as channeling Chic’s Nile Rodgers on “Eleanor” and “Down.” Chanking guitars, synth bass, [...]
Erasure Day-Glo (Based On A True Story) Mute Records Vince Clarke has been called “the Benjamin Franklin of synth music,” and his role as co-composer, arranger, and sound architect is unequivocal on Erasure’s experimental Day-Glo (Based On A [...]
Amon Amarth The Great Heathen Army Metal Blade Records With a Viking pop cultural moment in Netflix’s Vikings: Valhalla series, it is an auspicious time for melodic death metal band Amon Amarth to release its 12th album. Plundering Norse [...]
GALLACTIC WARRIORS ASSAULT ROCK A CONVERSATION WITH GWAR Peddling their 15th album, The New Dark Ages, GWAR’s current massacre circuiting the U.S. and Europe is The Black Death Rager Tour, a reference to both the Black Plague that decimated a [...]
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS @ LARIMER LOUNGE, DENVER (CO) MAY 26, 2022 At their sold-out performance at Denver’s outstanding Larimer Lounge, A Place to Bury Strangers (APTBS) sounded even more primal than their studio recordings. The X factor in [...]
SONGS FROM PEOPLE ARE ALSO SONGS ABOUT PEOPLE A CONVERSATION WITH DARI MAKSYMOVA OF 6TH CROWD Near the end of Ukrainian electronic producer 6TH CROWD’s “Sokolonko,” Dari Maksymova’s vocal multiplies into a chorus entreating in Ukrainian, “Hey, [...]
Big Paul Ferguson Remote Viewing – Reboot Cleopatra Records On a surface level, Remote Viewing – Reboot sounds like what you’d expect to hear if the drummer from English post-punk/industrial metal band Killing Joke made an album. If you [...]
Zero 7 Yeah Ghost (Bonus Edition) New State Music Zero 7’s Sam Hardaker and Henry Binns had real problems when they parted ways with Sia, their ‘unofficial lead singer,’ after her 2008 album Some People Have Real Problems. Despite nominations [...]
Killing Joke Lord Of Chaos Spinefarm Records How lucky we are. Killing Joke are recording their 16th or 17th album overall, the fourth since the original lineup of Jaz Coleman, Geordie Walker, Paul Ferguson, and Youth reunited in 2010. Lord of [...]
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS SEE THROUGH YOU DEDSTRANGE See Through You is fully stocked with post-punk basslines, jagged rhythm tracks, squalling guitars, disembodied vocals, and nonsensical lyrics, then dressed in a thick sludge of dissonant [...]
Damon Albarn The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows Transgressive Rercords The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows sharply diverges from Damon Albarn’s well-known recordings with Gorillaz, Blur, and The Good, the Bad, [...]
The Charlatans A Head Full Of Ideas Then Recordings/Republic Of Music To mark 30 years of making records since their inception in England’s West Midlands, The Charlatans have released A Head Full of Ideas. Their third singles compilation [...]
audiobooks Astro Tough Heavenly Recordings You’re at the wrong listening party if you’re anticipating London duo audiobooks will deliver songs with comprehensive narratives and linear structure. On Astro Tough, the languid reference points [...]
Supergrass In It For The Money (Remastered Expanded Edition) BMG With no better reason for Supergrass to reform in 2019 than the fact that playing in a million-selling band can be a decent job, the act of re-issuing an album called In It for the [...]
Piroshka Love Drips And Gathers Bella Union Bob Mould now-famously excused himself in 1993 from producing London shoegaze/dream pop band Lush’s album Split because he “kept picking the wrong girl’s songs.” The novel template of Shangri-Las/ABBA [...]
The Fall Are You Are Missing Winner (Deluxe Reissue) Cherry Red Apologists attribute prerelease sales of Are You Are Missing Winner at gigs in 2001 for the fun fact that The Fall’s 22nd studio album was the only one after 1983 not to chart. [...]
A Place To Bury Strangers Hologram Dedstrange If you haven’t heard A Place to Bury Strangers (APTBS) since their arrival, making records about exploding heads and shows loud enough to do the same, not too much has changed. For fans of the [...]
Morcheeba Blackest Blue Fly Agaric Records London-based Morcheeba once passed as a Thievery Corporation with actual songs, or a less jazzy Olive, or like Massive Attack without the paranoia and the politics. But whether it’s called downbeat, [...]
Telex This Is Telex Mute Records The partnership of Belgian synth-pop pioneers Telex with Mute Records to re-issue the band’s back catalogue is a logical fit, and it launches with career retrospective This Is Telex. Rather than assimilating them [...]
The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings Flemish Eye/FatCat/Full Time Hobby On their sixth album, The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings, Montreal’s The Besnard Lakes [...]
MG (Martin Gore) The Third Chimpanzee Mute Records Martin L. Gore is the principal songwriter, a founding member, and occasional lead vocalist of English electronic band Depeche Mode. His solo discography is split between sophisticated [...]
Holy Motors Horse Wharf Cat “Hold your horses, cowboy, put your pickup in reverse,” drawls Holy Motors vocalist Eliann Tulve on “Country Church.” Tulve makes a conscious effort to enunciate on the Estonian rock band’s second album, Horse. The [...]
Travis 10 Songs BMG The same melodic, emotional sincerity that made Scottish band Travis famous has also made the four-piece a music press target, patronizingly dismissed as a guilty pleasure. On ninth album 10 Songs, Travis alternates between [...]
