Muzz Muzz Matador Records There is something, a feeling or perhaps even a perception, that goes beyond most reviewers’ abilities to explain adequately when an album resonates deeply, emotionally, with the listener. The self-titled debut by Muzz, [...]
Used Cassettes Used Cassettes Loose Union We tend to look at many different regions across the globe, primarily within the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan when it comes to rock bands that stick out in the industry. However, [...]
Blancmange Mindset Blanc Check Records The new Blancmange album opens with the title track, “Mindset”, and following a minute-long musical introduction, the unmistakable voice of Neil Arthur sings “Unlike Wednesday this day is focused/There [...]
Run The Jewels RTJ4 BMG After promising their highly anticipated fourth album, RTJ4, would be available for free download in response to those in need due to the global pandemic and the recent racial protests in America, hip-hop duo Run The [...]
Black Sugar Transmission The Flowering Independent Even though this is the second album in a trilogy to be released in 2020, there is no sense of being stuck in the middle here, no sense of preparing for highlights to come. The almost insanely [...]
Iggy Pop Lust For Life (Deluxe Edition) Virgin Records Iggy Pop’s second solo album, made in collaboration with David Bowie and recorded in the divided city of Berlin in 1977, has gotten the reissue treatment. Critically acclaimed, Lust For Life [...]
Royal Canoe Glacial (Live) Paper Bag Records Royal Canoe is known for pushing boundaries of what we can imagine. Its music videos are surreal and its songs feature distorted vocals over layers of bizarre synths and creative percussion. If any [...]
ATD A Total Disappointment Kinda Cool Records Vancouver’s ATD have been tearing it up since blasting onto the punk scene in 2015. Their first full-length, A Total Disappointment, is anything but a disappointment. The album rips into high gear [...]
Deerhoof Future Teenage Cave Artists Joyful Noise Recordings As music fans, we demand progress from our favourite artists. With each successful album, we expect bigger and better. Experimental band Deerhoof has remarkably put out its 15th studio [...]
Rush Permanent Waves: 40th Anniversary Edition Universal Originally released in 1980, Permanent Waves is the latest Rush album in their series of reissues, and their first release since the equally sudden and tragic passing of drummer Neil Peart [...]
Blacktop Mojo Static Sandhill Records Following a truly successful sophomore album, Under The Sun, released in the fall of last year, Blacktop Mojo have returned with a four-track EP, Static. Given the Texas hard rock band’s rapidly growing [...]
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 [...]
