Paul McCartney Amoeba Gig (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music Amoeba Gig is perhaps the most welcome of the four ‘live’ albums in this batch of re-releases from Paul McCartney. Although portions of this concert have been released in the past, this is [...]
Eli Raybon Supertoys Independent In the Eighties, a geekey teen (or any other) movis was always accompanied by some (usually exquisite) electro-pop. Human League, Orchestral Maneouvres In The Dark, Heaven 17, even A Flock of Seagulls (they had [...]
God Module Unsound Metropolis Records If you like dark, gothic, techno music then you’ll enjoy Seattle, Washington’s God Module’s eighth studio album Unsound. The band’s mastermind, Jasyn Bangert is said to have pulled the band’s known sounds [...]
Paul McCartney Choba B CCCP (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music Paul McCartney continues his re-release projects with four of his live albums. Choba B CCCP, is not so much live album as it is a ‘live in the studio’ recording. It is also one of the [...]
Paul McCartney Paul Is Live (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music Here we have Paul Is Live, one of four of Paul McCartney’s albums being re-released today. It was originally released in November 1993 and documents McCartney’s 1993 New World Tour. It [...]
Paul McCartney Wings Over America (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music Wings Over America is the one album in the set of four of Paul McCartney’s re-releases which is not so much a live album as it is a ‘live in the studio’ recording. Here we have the [...]
Drab Majesty Modern Mirror DAIS Records How can you improve upon something that is damn near perfection? If you are Drab Majesty, you simply release a new album, that’s how. As if 2017’s epic The Demonstration isn’t the definition of a [...]
Girlfriend Material Cool Car Dine Alone Records Girlfriend Material has released yet another uniquely jarring and lyrically delicious album Cool Car. Shaping out the sounds we previously heard from their last self-titled EP in 2017, it seems the [...]
Metz Automat Sub Pop Toronto’s elegant noise punk trio METZ are back with a new LP consisting of non-album singles, rarities, and B-sides. Automat brings all these songs together in one place for the first time and will surely be a delightful [...]
Tycho Weather Mom+Pop/Ninja Tune Turn on instant-summertime vibes with San Francisco-based Tycho’s new album Weather, released through Mom+Pop x Ninjatune. After taking a year-long hiatus from touring to work on the new album, Tycho (aka Scott [...]
K.Flay Solutions Night Street/Interscope Records/Universal Music Canada Pop music in the past few years has taken a serious and sparse bent. The dark depths of pop mined by the likes of Lorde and Lana del Ray have reflected the global [...]
Cave In Final Transmission Hydra Head Records Suffering is something we don’t often talk about, yet is something we all endure. Caleb Scofield, long time Cave In bassist and vocalist, passed away in March of 2018 after a fatal car accident, [...]
Les Bof! Voila! Dirty Water Records Worshipping at the altar of proto-garage rock and yé-yé, Franco-Scottish quartet Les Bof!, have returned from an eight-year hiatus with Voila!, their second full-length through the London-based Dirty Water [...]
The Soft Cavalry The Soft Cavalry Bella Union It’s not very often that a debut album comes along that upon first listen, you know it is destined for greatness. Meet The Soft Cavalry. This is one album that has such an effect upon the first [...]
Ex Ømerta Ex Ømerta Independent Hailing from what very well may be one of the least likely places, your next favourite alternative rock band, Ex Ømerta, are ready to burst straight out of Winnipeg with their explosive self-titled debut album. [...]
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib Bandana Keep Cool/RCA Records The long-awaited followup to Freddie Gibbs & Madlib’s Piñata collab album released in 2014 is finally here. After five long years, we can once again bask in the undeniable chemistry [...]
Those Darn Gnomes Calling Whitetails To A Tuned Bow Nefarious Industries Those Darn Gnomes might be on to something. That something is a beautiful mix of all genres, instruments, noise, singing., and production all wrapped up on an EP that runs [...]
Hank Marvin Gold Crimson Records Hank Marvin is a living legend. There is no question or debate to this statement. He is held in high regard by Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Brian May and so many more. McCartney even parodied him [...]
Griffin House Rising Star Evening Records After 13 studio albums, Nashville-by-way-of-Ohio singer-songwriter Griffin House is more “old hat” than “rising star” yet his latest album is titled just that. Paradoxical? Maybe—but Rising Star is shot [...]
Kete Bowers Paper Ships Current Records Paper Ships is a fantastic album from an artist that deserves a great deal of attention. Kete Bowers has written and released an album of folk/Americana/rock songs that will not only resonate but impact [...]
The Black Keys Let’s Rock Nonesuch Records Respected, loved, and downright heralded, The Black Keys have won over most of the music industry with a riveting career that dominated the early 2010s. Released on the cusp of the latter half of [...]
Heather Nova Pearl Saltwater Records Heather Nova’s 10th Studio album, Pearl, is a positive-feeling collection of all the little bits and pieces that are her heart. Rocking the studio in the mountains of Spain, Nova has regrouped after a broken [...]
Thom Yorke Anima XL Recordings Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, who has sold millions of records and won his fair share of awards, is back with another solo release entitled Anima, his first since 2014’s Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes. Teaming up with [...]
Travis Live At Glastonbury ’99 Craft Recordings “Why does it always rain on me/Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?” These lyrics echoed in the heads of many Britpop listeners in the late nineties. This year, Travis celebrates the [...]
