Badguyswin Cowards Independent Canadian grunge band Badguyswin has released its debut album, Cowards. Hailing from Grand Forks, BC, the band lays it all on the line with a ‘90s-reminiscent, 12-track record that delivers on both nostalgia and on [...]
Mare Berger The Moon Is Always Full Independent In most cases, the PR people try to colour a new release by their proteges in glorifying light, often giving descriptions that actually in many ways do not reflect the music the listener is to [...]
The 1975 Notes On A Conditional Form Interscope/Dirty Hit Originally titled Music for Cars and slated for release immediately after the last album, Notes on a Conditional Form is fascinating. Now it is in our hands and it is beautiful and [...]
Dennis DeYoung 26 East, Volume 1 Frontiers Music As hard as it might be to believe, this is Dennis DeYoung`s first studio album since 2009`s One Hundred Years From Now. Perhaps the time away from the studio has been a major asset, as 26 Eas, [...]
Zwaremachine Ripping At The Fabric Brutal Resonance Records Zwaremachine has mastered the ability to combine Industrial and EBM into a wonderful concoction on their five-track EP, Ripping At the Fabric. Dark and hypnotizing, each song is [...]
Cuddle Magic Bath Northern Spy Records Album titles are not often appropriately named. In this case however, it couldn’t be more appropriate. Bath, by New York/Philadelphia sextet Cuddle Magic. Why? Very simple reason – it was recorded in a [...]
Bloods Seattle Share It Music Pop punk trio Bloods pens a generous ode to the legendary city of grunge on new EP Seattle. Through six punchy songs, the band, that originally hails from Sydney, Australia, thanks the city that supported them so [...]
The Dears Lovers Rock Dangerbird Records The Dears’ eighth album, Lovers Rock, is an absolutely pleasing collection of sonic delights for fans old and new. Amongst the catchy hooks, vocal falsettos, and melancholic pop-noir exists a deepness [...]
Prince And The Revolution Prince And The Revolution: Live Warner Music The latest offering from the Prince estate and his long mythologized vault comes in the form of Prince And The Revolution: Live. The surprise release, recorded on March 30, [...]
Frigs Rave And Rupture In Music As Disaster Arts & Crafts Although there have not been many new Frigs releases since their 2018 debut album, Basic Behaviour, this Toronto-based band has been very busy. Three quarters of the band provided [...]
Mark Lanegan Straight Songs Of Sorrow Heavenly Recordings While seemingly keeping a low profile over the last decade, Mark Lanegan, of Screaming Trees, Queens Of The Stone Age, and countless other collaborative works, has simply refused to slow [...]
Choir Boy Gathering Swans DAIS Gathering Swans is Choir Boy’s second album following Passive with Desire, where the world got a chance to find out just how talented Adam Klopp and his distinct voice really are. Klopp could be the second wave of [...]
White Denim World As A Waiting Room Radio Milk Records In the midst of Austin’s stay-at-home order, the four members of White Denim devised a plan to record a full-length album, their 10th, in 30 days. After a week at the band’s Radio Milk [...]
Car Seat Headrest Making A Door Less Open Matador Records Such is the restless spirit and the waves of creative energy that accompany all of the Car Seat Headrest’s releases that for this album every song has been recorded twice separately: once [...]
Austra HiRUDiN Pink Fizz Katie Austra Stelmonis, who goes by the moniker Austra, has released her fourth album titled HiRUDin. Although her unique, high-pitched vocals and sparse arrangements on the new disc are not for everyone, there are [...]
Pharmacose Prescription Fiction, Pt. 1 Silent Majority Group Jacksonville, Florida-based alternative rock band, Pharmacose, have released their debut EP, Prescription Fiction, Pt. 1. The six-song release follows a string of five previous single [...]
The Sounds Things We Do For Love Arnioki Records This is slick, effective pop. It is powerful, radio-friendly, entertaining, and packed with energy. Swedish band The Sounds have two decades worth of experience to draw from, having formed in 1998 [...]
Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin Pop Song Goodbye Boozy Records Long-time collaborators Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin are captured here in their very early days banging out riffs with tenacious brutality. Limited to just 300 copies upon its release in [...]
Church Of Trees New Bold Dawn Independent Church Of Dreams is the brainchild of musician/writer/producer extraordinaire, Bernard Frazer. Since their debut EP in 2017 (Primitive Creatures), he has consistently come up with some of the finest [...]
Local Natives Violet Street Remixes Loma Vista Recordings Listening to Local Natives’ holy trinity of vocals, Hahn, Rice, and Ayer, will soothe the soul of any listener. It’s been a decade and counting since the band completed and released their [...]
VibeByMelo And Travis Thickle THE HILLS HAVE WIFI Independent VibeByMelo is back with another quality album. Paired with Ottawa-based producer Travis Thickle, the two artists find their own lane creating a catchy project with conscious hip hop [...]
Daniel Romano’s Outfit Content To Point The Way You’ve Changed Records Content To Point The Way is Daniel Romano’s third full-length album release since the end of March. Prolific does not even begin to describe him. Even more [...]
Snog Lullabies For The Lithium Age Metropolis Australian David Thrussell aka Snog was already an enigma even before he came up with his latest album Lullabies For The Lithium Age. He has not been active in the music scene for quite a few years [...]
Philip Rambow Canadiana Fretsore Records When you listen to the new Philip Rambow album, Canadiana, the first thing you realize is that five years between albums is simply too long. His last album, 2015’s Whatever happened To Philip Rambow, was [...]
