Gary Clark Jr. This Land Warner Music Few artists can evoke the excitement on stage and in the studio as Gary Clark Jr. does as he continues to redefine the forms which both the blues and pop music can take on. His latest album, This Land, is no [...]
Gunna Drip Or Drown 2 Young Stoner Life/300 Entertainment Following critically acclaimed releases Drip Season 3 and Drip Harder, Gunna finally arrives with his debut album Drip or Drown 2. The 16-track release adds a few notable gems to the [...]
Murray A. Lightburn Hear Me Out Dangerbird Records The Dears’ frontman Murray A. Lightburn is back with a clear and contained solo outing in Hear Me Out. Whereas Lightburn’s last effort was driven primarily by propulsive rhythms and cascading [...]
The Chocolate Watchband This Is My Voice Dirty Water Records Revered proto-punk rock outfit, The Chocolate Watchband, have returned with their first album since 2000’s Get Away. This Is My Voice is a track album which takes the listener back to [...]
Tom Holkenborg Alita: Battle Angel – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Milan Records Legendary electronic producer Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL) creates another exhilarating score, this time for the upcoming action flick Alita: Battle [...]
Bedstudy Dot Wave EP Grand Jury Music Dot Wave EP is the first project from Brooklyn trio, Bedstudy, who are looking to make modern electro-R&B with an indie-pop flare. The group has previously made some waves with the music video for [...]
Noctorum The Afterlife Schoolkids Records Noctorum has been missed since 2011’s Honey Mink Forever, and The Afterlife is a welcome return for the psychedelic pop/rock band; amidst all the strange developments in current events, the world needs [...]
Jon Fratelli Bright Night Flowers Cooking Vinyl Jon Fratelli takes things down a notch in the best way possible on his new solo album, Bright Night Flowers. With moody, mellowed-out guitar, pixie-like strings, and Fratelli’s quiet, underrated [...]
NIIGHTS Hellebores Sun Pedal Recordings Straight out of Cleveland comes NIIGHTS with their second album (Whisper being their 2015 debut). And since Whisper, NIIGHTS have come a long way. The core of the four piece are Jenna Fournier (vocals) and [...]
The Long Ryders Psychedelic Country Soul Cherry Red Records The Long Ryders put themselves at the forefront of Americana, as part of the Paisley Underground scene in the 1980s. Since disbanding in 1987, and re-forming several times over the past [...]
Holiday Gunfire Holiday Gunfire Cornelius Chapel Records Though Birmingham, Alabama isn’t the most likely birthplace for a perfect amalgam of 1990s sounds, that is exactly what these veterans of Verbena, Twinside, Great Lakes, and Nowhere [...]
ShapeShiftingAliens ShapeShiftingAliens The Sublunar Society ShapeShiftingAliens is a Swedish duo, consisting of J.P Cléve on vocals and Niklas Rundquist providing the music. Although this is their debut album, they have worked together in the [...]
Chain Wallet No Ritual Jansen Records With the release of its second album, Bergen-based dream pop trio Chain Wallet delivers a post-apocalyptic dive into the millennial mind. While the group’s self-titled debut from 2016 used the attempt to [...]
Post Death Soundtrack It Will Come Out Of Nowhere Indepenent It Will Come Out Of Nowhere is the appropriately titled newest release from experimental doom metal pioneers Post Death Soundtrack. Jon Ireson and Steve Moore are the current players [...]
TRDMRK TRDMRK EP Hot Plate Records With so many rappers featuring on each other’s recordings, hip-hop supergroups have become rare, which makes TRDMRK—whose impressive lineup includes Jurassic 5’s DJ Nu-Mark, SlimKid3 from Pharcyde, and newcomer [...]
Xiu Xiu Girl With Basket Of Fruit Polyvinyl Records San Jose-based experimental band Xiu Xiu’s fourteenth studio album, Girl with Basket of Fruit, was conceived as a trip through the Black Lodge from the critically acclaimed television [...]
LCD Soundsystem Electric Lady Sessions Sony Music In 2017, LCD Soundsystem released its brilliant American Dream, and not only was it the band’s first album to chart in the top ten, it actually debuted at number one and won a Grammy for Best [...]
HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR Loma Vista Recordings Dante Alighieri imagined an entrance to hell reading “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here”. On VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR, HEALTH unremittingly grapples with lost hope and death. Lyrically, the [...]
Various Artists Music Inspired By The Film Roma Columbia Records Alfonso Cuarón’s legacy as a genius of cinematic storytelling will live on for ages, and his latest film, Roma, is now accompanied by Music Inspired by the Film Roma, a compilation [...]
Panda Bear Buoys Domino Records Sometimes a childlike curiosity can pay off. In a discography spanning almost two decades, both as a member of the legendary Animal Collective and working solo as Panda Bear, Noah Lennox has tried his hand in [...]
Snakerattlers All Heads Will Roll Dirty Water Records The UK punk duo Snakerattlers have returned with their sophomore album, All Heads Will Roll, following up their 2017 debut, This Is Rattlerock. Comprised of husband and wife duo Dan Oliver [...]
Standalone Standalone Negative Gain Records Standalone is Steven Siebold (Hate Dept, Pigface), and the name is pretty self-explanatory. This is a solo project in every sense of the word, as Siebold is the only one on the album. Standalone is an [...]
Memphis Leave With Me Independent Memphis, the duo consisting of long-time friends Torquil Campbell and Chris Dumont, give us their fourth album, Leave With Me. Dumont and Campbell have been friends for 25 years. Dumont was a member of [...]
Jessica Pratt Quiet Signs City Slang/Mexican Summer For her latest album, Quiet Signs, Jessica Pratt embraces a psychedelic ambiance reminiscent of early Stevie Nicks. This is not the kind of record that will have audiences on their feet, [...]
