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, [...]
Said The Whale Cascadia Arts & Crafts For me a favourite thing is listening to bands that share a strong kinship with one another as well as to their music. Vancouver, B.C trio, Said the Whale have been playing with a rich heartfelt woodsy [...]
Beirut Gallipoli 4AD Basically Beirut is Zach Condon, who keeps himself busy between albums with numerous EPs and side projects (Realpeople, 1971, and Soft Landing). Featured on this album, alongside Condon (who provides the vocals and plays [...]
Business Of Dreams Ripe For Anarchy Slumberland Records Ripe For Anarchy is the second production of Business of Dreams. Corey Cunningham, the multi-instrumentalist behind this project surprises us with a new release after his eponymous album [...]
Metallica Helping Hands… Live & Acoustic At The Masonic Blackened Recordings Metallica seems to be in a sort of career Renaissance. Its latest studio album, 2016’s Hardwired… to Self-Destruct, has been heralded as the band’s strongest [...]
White Lies Five [PIAS] Recordings White Lies is bringing the hooks on their fifth album, but this time without the naïve sense of live or die urgency of their first, To Lose My Life…, rather this is a more seasoned albeit subdued take on pop [...]
Within Temptation Resist Spinefarm Records Dutch metal powerhouse Within Temptation is back with their seventh studio album, Resist. The new release, its first since 2014’s Hydra, comes after a four-year hiatus that surprisingly almost led to [...]
Guided By Voices Zeppelin Over China Rockathon Records It seems like a wonderful time to be a Guided by Voices fan. Since 2016, kingpin Robert Pollard has been joined by longtime members Doug Gillard and Kevin March, alongside relative newcomers [...]
Abigail Lapell Getaway Coax Records In following up the award-winning Canadian folk of 2017’s Hide Nor Hair, Abigail Lapell had her work cut out for her. Fans will no doubt be more than content with the quality of Getaway. Lapell’s voice sounds [...]
Ron Wood & Ronnie Lane Mahoney’s Last Stand (Limited Green Vinyl Reissue) Real Gone Music While its 1972 film counterpart may not be very memorable – likely due to its Canadian origins and its lack of a theatrical release – Mahoney’s Last [...]
