JULIA-SOPHIE FORGIVE TOO SLOW BA DA BING! RECORDS With any form of electro music, pop, or ambient (take your pick) the key question these days is “what is that new element an artist can bring to the genre?” It can be big, it can be small, just [...]
LITTLE MYSTERY LITTLE MYSTERY RUINATION RECORD CO New York’s Ivy Meissner is one Little Mystery, and her self-titled debut album amply shows that she has chosen quite a fitting moniker to present her music. With quite an intriguing voice [...]
BAD BRAINS I AGAINST I BAD BRAINS RECORDS As a part of their ongoing remaster campaign, Bad Brains have reissued I Against I. Originally released in 1986, I Against I was the third studio album from the band and saw Bad Brains expand beyond the [...]
THE DONNAS SPEND THE NIGHT REAL GONE MUSIC One of the most influential punk bands of the 90s, The Donnas, exuded a rebellious energy that was often likened to the female version of the Ramones. Their high school persona, which revolved around [...]
ROBIN GUTHRIE ATLAS SOLEIL APRÈS MINUIT The Cocteau Twins were very much adored and influential when they were together from the 1980s until the early 1990s. Since then, the band has taken on an almost mythical status. Their music continues to [...]
LYS MORKE KNIFE THERAPY ARTOFFACT RECORDS Taking a route less traveled for any artist/musician is always filled with dangers and pitfalls, and to overcome these, you have to have a clear vision, determination and knowledge to truly overcome [...]
AFI BLACK SAILS IN THE SUNSET (25th ANNIVERSARY REISSUE) CRAFT RECORDINGS When it comes to one of the most intelligent and unique bands in the music industry, how does one come to talk about such a prestigious album that would be the gateway to [...]
DEEP PURPLE =1 EARMUSIC In 1974, both hippies and teens from around the world were grooving to the infectious smouldering sound of “Smoke On The Water”. 50 years later, the masterminds behind this iconic tune, Deep Purple have just [...]
THE RAVEONETTES THE RAVEONETTES SING… CLEOPATRA RECORDS The Raveonettes hail from Copenhagen and are a duo consisting of Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo. The Raveonettes Sing… is their first full-length album since 2017’s 2016 Atomized. The [...]
ONEIDA EXPENSIVE AIR JOYFUL NOISE RECORDINGS Oneida formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1997 and released their debut album, A Place Called El Shaddai’s that year. Since then, they have gone on to release 16 albums and several EPs/singles. [...]
AUSTIN JOHN SURVIVE EACH OTHER INDEPENDENT Austin John is based in Toronto and is really the brainchild of Todd Elsliger. Survive Each Other is the band’s fourth album and their first since 2020’s The Better Way back When. Austin John produces a [...]
COLOR GREEN FOOL’S PARADE NEW WEST RECORDS Modern psych rock is tagged as such because it often includes a number of other musical elements that the initial psych rock from its late 60s heyday possibly didn’t have. Think of all such [...]
HANNAH MOHAN TIME IS A WALNUT EGGHUNT RECORDS Formally, Time Is A Walnut is Hannah Mohan’s solo debut, but Mohan has already created quite a buzz while she was fronting And The Kids for some ten years or so. That buzz was based both on [...]
DONOVAN WOODS THINGS WERE NEVER GOOD IF THEY’RE NOT GOOD NOW END TIMES MUSIC Some would say that singer songwriters are ‘dime-a-dozen’ these days, but there are quite a number of such artists that simply stand out, depending [...]
JOHN LENNON MIND GAMES – THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION (SUPER DELUXE BOX SET) UNIVERSAL MUSIC John Lennon’s Mind Games came at a rather turbulent time in his life. It had been three years since The Beatles had split and the spectre of the band [...]
CRAZY TOWN THE GIFT OF GAME (25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) REAL GONE MUSIC Hold onto your socks, folks, because we’re about to dive headfirst into the mind-blowing masterpiece that is Crazy Town’s The Gift of Game. Now, some might say [...]
WINDWAKER HYPERVIOLENCE FEARLESS RECORDS Sometimes, escaping all the limitations preventing you from creating something new is the only way to innovate. Windwaker’s commitment to distinctive refinement without sacrificing individuality has [...]
IN HEARTS WAKE INCARNATION UNFD When one looks at the definition of incarnation, it is the embodiment of a spirit in the flesh, the awakening of something fresh and enticing. This idea has never held greater significance for the Australian band [...]
FRED ABONG BLINDNESS MOOCHIN’ ABOUT RECORDS To those who follow Spill Magazine more closely, the name of Fred Abong might be familiar, and even more so, if they are fans of Throwing Muses and Belly, as Abong played bass for both bands back [...]
GHOST FAN CLUB GHOST FAN CLUB KNIFEPUNCH RECORDS Tyler Costolo has been making music since 2017, and it all ranged anywhere between the softer side of slowcore and bedroom pop to something heavier and more experimental. Ghost Fan Club seems to [...]
NIGHT IN ATHENS WASTED REFLEKTIONS WAVE RECORDS Music is often the strongest identifier we have to document the passing of time and is the closest thing we currently have as humans to a time machine. Some songs can bring us back decades, [...]
GUIDED BY VOICES STRUT OF KINGS ROCKATHON RECORDS Sometimes a band finds a sound that just works, a sound that acts almost as a fingerprint. Guided by Voices is a band that has solidified their trademark sound for the better part of 40 years, [...]
LUCY MacNEIL ANGELS WHISPER LUCY MacNEIL MUSIC Lucy MacNeil is one of the founding members of the band The Barra MacNeils, who are a Canadian institution. The family has been making music since they were children in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia. [...]
NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS SOUTH OF HERE STAX RECORDS When Nathaniel Rateliff cropped up on the scene some four years and three albums ago, the brilliance and assuredness were evident from the get-go. It was Rateliff’s [...]
