Bodega Endless Scroll What’s Your Rupture? Is there a punk revival, a renaissance afoot? Given the tumultuous social and Geo-political climate, it would make sense that the two genres with the most active history of lyrically cataloguing [...]
Searmanas Searmanas Cleopatra Records Searmanas is a word that is derived from Gaelic, and it means ceremony or ceremonial. It is the perfect name for this artist. The debut album, Searmanas, has a feeling of official ceremony, an album that is [...]
SMASH Fashion Rompus Pompous Electric Pudding Records Bringing rock ‘n’ roll back? You want some classic ’70s rock/power pop guitar hooks and fresh kicks? Come get some! This aptly titled fourth album from the LA rock ‘n’ roll band [...]
The Nude Party The Nude Party New West Records The Nude Party is the debut album from The Nude Party. They have released an EP, but The Nude Party is their first full length album, and for the most part, it lives up to expectations. Based in [...]
Yungblud 21st Century Liability Locomotion/Geffen Records/Universal Music Canada With thoughtful lyricism, poetic delivery and a mix of genres that create a chaotic beauty missing from most courageous efforts in music today, Yorkshire-born [...]
Bruce Dickinson Scream For Me Sarajevo: Music From The Motion Picture Sanctuary Records Not only is this album just a great hard rock album, but it is a story. A story about how terrible war is. A story about how powerful music is. A story that [...]
Nachtmahr Widerstand Trisol Music Group Austrian band Nachtmahr, headed by Thomas Rainer, has been described as “an industrial orgy” by critics. Within this world of heavy dance floor stomping beats, that is high praise. Upon exploring their [...]
Let’s Eat Grandma I’m All Ears Transgressive Let’s get it out of the way now and address this fact, as all Let’s Eat Grandma reviews seem almost contractually obligated to do – Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton are young. Their 2016 debut I, [...]
Ray Davies Our Country: Americana Act II Sony Music Our Country: Americana Act II is not so much a sequel to the very successful 2017 release, Americana, as it is a continuation. Ray Davies has based both albums on his 2013 book Americana: The [...]
Gorillaz The Now Now Parlophone Records Limited Your favourite cartoon ensemble that makes up the Gorillaz is back at it again with a new album, The Now Now, and although it’s not as courageous as previous releases, it’s a much-needed collection [...]
Guns N’ Roses Appetite For Destruction Remastered Universal Music Group (Originally Geffen Records) It goes without saying that Guns N’ Roses’ seminal 1987 album, Appetite For Destruction, is a near flawless debut album that set the bar for rock [...]
Wild Moccassins Look Together New West Records Look Together is this generation’s Rumours. Co-written by the core members of Wild Moccasins, Zahira Gutierrez and Cody Swann, the album lyrically and musically documents the break-up of Swann and [...]
A Flock Of Seagulls with The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra Ascension August Day This seems to be a trend. A great many artists, alive and dead, are setting their music with an orchestra. The bands originating from the 1980s are not immune to [...]
Jim James Uniform Distortion ATO Records Uniform Distortion is the newest album by Jim James. He brings forth a soulful experience with an indie feel. James’ latest album will be a bit different than his last. He decided to drop the [...]
Florence + the Machine High As Hope Virgin EMI There are few, if any, voices more distinctive or powerful than that of Florence Welch. Famed for her ability to channel emotion through her shiver-inducing vocals, Florence’s vocal prowess has [...]
Claire Morales All That Wanting Independent Listening to Claire Morales’s second LP, All That Wanting, I can’t help but feel like I’ve heard this before. Don’t get me wrong, Morales’s voice is, by definition, beautiful. “Sybille” and “New [...]
The Turbo A.C.’s Radiation Concrete Jungle Records The Turbo A.C.’s kicked off the July 22 release of their newest album Radiation with a proclamation that “radiation will sweep the land, the kids will be infected” – and honestly, the kids don’t [...]
Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch The Null Corporation There is little that I could say about Trent Reznor or Nine Inch Nails that has not already been said; the man is a musical omnivore with an incredible ear for both emotion and atmosphere, who finds [...]
Dumb Seeing Green Mint Records Only a band with music that is decidedly smart would call themselves “Dumb”. With clever, snarky lyrics woven into a mockery of the conventions of money-obsessed modern life, Seeing Green is both the album’s name [...]
David Clayton-Thomas Mobius Independent Label Services/Universal Music The temptation for many artists from the classic rock era is to hit the nostalgia concert circuit, dragging out their greatest hits. Though touring was quite lucrative, [...]
Yukon Blonde Critical Hit Dine Alone Records Critical Hit is Yukon’s fourth album, and their first since 2015’s On Blonde. For this album, they employed the services of Tony Hoffer (Beck, Air, The Kooks) to produce, and it was a very wise [...]
Susie Scurry The Elvis Hour Independent Melbourne, Australia’s artist Susie Scurry released her debut album under the name The Grand Magoozi, and the self-titled album was released in 2016. Here she is, writing and recording under her own [...]
The Orb No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds Cooking Vinyl Alex Paterson is back with his friends under the banner of The Orb. Once again he is working with Thomas Fehlmann, and as duo they take the title of this album, No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds, [...]
Front Line Assembly WarMech Artoffact Records This is the first new music from Front Line Assembly since 2013’s Echogenetic, which was a brilliant and very successful album for the band. WarMech is not a follow-up to that album, but it is a [...]
