Jaye P. Morgan Jaye P. Morgan (Reissue) WeWantSounds In what should have been a landmark moment for soul and disco music, Jaye P. Morgan released her self-titled album, Jaye P. Morgan, in 1976. Rather than being a watershed moment for both her [...]
Mozes And The Firstborn Dadcore Burger Records On their third album, Dadcore, Dutch alt-rockers Mozes and the Firstborn diversify their sound even further than on 2016’s Great Pile of Nothing. Lead single “If I” is a perfectly produced [...]
FIDLAR Almost Free Mom + Pop California skate punk band FIDLAR release today their highly anticipated third album Almost Free. The pre-released singles kept fans guessing what to expect: “Alcohol” sticks to the in-your-face FIDLAR party [...]
Balthazar Fever [PIAS] Recordings With the release of their fourth album, Fever, on the horizon, Balthazar seeks to broaden their creativity and crank up the dial to an already strong discography. Previous members, Simon Casier and Michiel [...]
Fjord Shallow Waters Carpark Records The context in which we encounter something plays a significant role in our experience of it, a phenomenon which is particularly the case when it comes to music. Given the flexibility of the artform to cater [...]
The PepTides Galápagos Vol. I Independent One of early 2019’s pleasant musical surprises is Galápagos Vol. 1, the new album from Ottawa’s The PepTides. Galápagos Vol. 1 is a salute to Kurt Vonnegut’s 1985 novel Galapagos, and over the [...]
Blood Red Shoes Get Tragic Jazz Life Records The beauty of the two-piece band is that its personality can be bipolar in a most exciting way. Blood Red Shoes elegantly makes this point on their exquisite new album, Get Tragic. After touring [...]
Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center Dead Oceans A release that very much snuck up on fans of Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers, the self-titled Better Oblivion Community Center is a study in balance. Oberst and [...]
Weezer The Teal Album Atlantic Records Weezer can play a knockout cover but that doesn’t mean that The Teal Album, a collection of iconic and shamelessly-picked classics, is predictable. On ten tracks of lighthearted fun, Weezer approaches many [...]
The Cavemen Lowlife Slovenly Recordings Making their Slovenly Recordings debut, The Cavemen return with a new three-track EP. Lowlife, as expected, continues developing the same style of grimy, abrasive punk firmly established on 2018’s Nuke [...]
Tony Malone Flowers For Armageddon Independent Tony Malone was part of the original Queen Street punk scene in the late 1970s. At that time he was a member of The Dishes, after which he formed Drastic Measures. Malone wrote some of the finest [...]
Malibu Ken Malibu Ken Rhymesayers Entertainment As of 2016’s The Impossible Kid, it seems that Aesop Rock has been trying to make more accessible music. He and producer Tobacco, forming the duo “Malibu Ken”, go back to the basics for this [...]
Lost Under Heaven Love Hates What You Become Mute Lost Under Heaven’s second album, Love Hates What You Become, has arrived. The young lovers, Ebony Hoorn and Ellery James Roberts, delve into the darkest depths of society to pull out an album [...]
Deerhunter Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? 4AD Beloved Georgia experimental rock band Deerhunter’s new album, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, is incredibly dreamy in some places, alert and aware of modern times [...]
YNW Melly We All Shine P2018 This 19-year-old artist is one of the most interesting rappers in recent memory. He blends hard lyrics with smooth, almost lullaby-style beats and rhythms, an approach that is prevalent on his breakout track, “Murder [...]
Future Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD Epic Records This 20-track album, The WIZRD, is the newest project from Atlanta rapper Future. On this release, he stays true to the melodic trap sound that he is known for. Future boasts more personas [...]
The Twilight Sad It Won’t Be Like This All The Time Rock Action Records If you haven’t listened to the Scottish quintet called The Twilight Sad, now is the time to jump on the bandwagon. Its new album, It Won/t Be Like This All the Time is [...]
Alice Merton Mint Mom + Pop Music Somewhere in the shadows of modern rock is a netherworld where confessional singer-songwriters become alt-pop divas. If you visit this place, ask for Alice Merton. She is well-known to the inhabitants, for she [...]
Altitudes & Attitude Get It Out Megaforce Records Get It Out is the second release and first full-length album from Altitudes & Attitude, a collaboration between Frank Bello and David Ellefson, bassists for Anthrax and Megadeth [...]
Night Beats Myth Of A Man Heavenly Recordings Seattle’s Night Beats have recently released their fourth album, Myth of a Man. It was recorded by founding member Danny Billingsley and produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. While it was [...]
Toro y Moi Outer Peace Carpark Records Since the release of his full-length debut, Causers of This, under the alias of Toro y Moi, Chaz Bundick has forged a career on bridging the gap between the progression of modern, radio-friendly dance music [...]
Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow Jagjaguwar Given that Remind Me Tomorrow comes five years after Sharon Van Etten’s last album and was written during a time of significant personal change, it is no surprise that it is markedly different from [...]
Crane Like The Bird Crane Like The Bird Independent After years of stacking up his resume, Kyle Crane has the spotlight. After touring with artists such as Neko Case and M. Ward, as well as appearing in the film Whiplash as the drum double, [...]
Jugger Psyco Arc’y Boyz Jugger, who hails from Toronto, is an artist with a unique vibe to his music. He has a dark sound, with fairly simplistic one-liners, which he places throughout a track to create an aura. Due to this different [...]
