Desperate Journalist Grow Up Fierce Panda Records An excellent follow-up to the band’s self-titled debut album, Desperate Journalist’s Grow Up contains eleven dreamy, haunting, and cleverly composed post-punk songs. The band manages to channel [...]
Paul McCartney Flowers In The Dirt (Reissue) Universal Music In 2010, Paul McCartney began a reissue series, called The Archive Collection, where he would reissue an album from his catalogue. The reissues would not only include the remastered [...]
Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me P. W. Elverum & Sun Mount Eerie is really songwriter and producer Phil Elverum. Elverum was married to Canadian artist Geneviève Castrée, shortly after the birth of their daughter, Geneviève was diagnosed [...]
Night Ranger Don’t Let Up Frontiers Music SRL By my count, this is Night Ranger’s 12th studio album. And to be very honest, they are not breaking any new ground with this one. They have returned to a tried and true formula. [...]
Gold Star Big Blue Autumn Tone Records Gold Star, aka Marlon Rabenreither, follows up his full-length album Dark Days (2015) with his latest release, Big Blue. The title is a nod to the ramshackle Hollywood home where he produced and recorded [...]
Spiral Stairs Doris & The Daggers Domino Records Former Pavement and Preston School of Industry guitarist Scott Kannberg (aka Spiral Stairs) took a sabbatical with his wife to Brisbane, Australia in 2010 after recording the first Spiral [...]
Spoon Hot Thoughts Matador Records The distinct sounds of indie-rock heroes Spoon returns with one of their most inventive and confident pieces of work to date. The highly anticipated Hot Thoughts finally drops following the ear-worm of a [...]
Depeche Mode Spirit Columbia Records Spirit is Depeche Mode’s 14th studio album, and couldn’t have come at a better time. Opening with the pointedly political “Going Backwards,” frontman Dave Gahan laments ‘We’re goin’ backwards/turnin’ back our [...]
Solid Doctor How About Some More Ether: Collected Works 90-95 Declasse Recordings Steve Cobby, aka Fila Brazillia, aka Solid Doctor, brings us an incredible six disc retrospective of re- mastered and unreleased material from the Solid Doctor [...]
This Morn’ Omina Kundalini Rising Dependent Records In the obscure and bewitching realm of rhythmic noise, This Morn’ Omina is among the most celebrated catalogue entries. Nothing even begins to compare to the experience of this [...]
Honey Beard Dreamless Sleep Independent Toronto-based electronic duo Honey Beard’s debut full-length album, Dreamless Sleep, dropped mid-March. It follows their more experimental 2015 debut EP, Honey Beard. Described as “dark synth-pop at its [...]
Top Down Rough Roads Voodoo Doughnut Recordings Rough Roads is the first full-length album by lo-fi rock trio Top Down. Although based in Portland, the band’s international members hail from the U.S., Germany, and New Zealand. Associated acts [...]
Dirty Fences First “EP” Plus Two Xtra Songs Dirty Water Records Back in 2012, New York street-level punk band Dirty Fences comprised of high school buddies from Boston Jack Daves (vocals/guitar), Max Comaskey (bass), and Max Hiersteiner (drums) [...]
Shelby Earl The Man Who Made Himself A Name Nine Mile Records Shelby Earl’s new record, The Man Who Made Himself a Name, offers a slight deviation from the brooding, guitar-centric tendencies of her first two albums, Burn the Boots (2011) and [...]
Thelma Thelma Tiny Engines The eponymous debut of Brooklyn’s indie folk four-piece Thelma is founder Natasha Jacobs’ second release, after her solo EP Split Myths in 2013. Her solo debut showcased Jacobs’ production savviness, partnering [...]
Duran Duran Last Night in the City: The Remixes Warner Music An interesting EP from Warner Music arrived, containing four remixes of Duran Duran’s “Last Night in the City” featuring Keisza, from their latest album Paper Gods. The remixes [...]
Peter Murphy Bare-Boned And Sacred Metropolis Records This is actually Peter Murphy’s fourth solo live album. And this is, by far, is his best . It was recorded at New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge in April 2016 during his Bare-Boned And Sacred [...]
Elliott Smith Either/Or (Expanded Edition) Kill Rock Stars Elliott Smith’s classic 1997 album, Either/Or, is widely regarded as his most notable work. To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of its release, Kill Rock Stars has been kind enough to [...]
The Shins Heartworms Sony Music The Shins are releasing their fifth album, Heartworms, on March 10. The album is very different from The Shins’ popular debut studio album from 2001, Oh, Inverted World. James Mercer shows off his lower vocal [...]
Bonny Doon Bonny Doon Salinas Records Bonny Doon welcomes you into warmer weather with their debut, self-titled full-length album. With extended periods of sunshine coming your way, this LP is perfect to listen to after a long day with a cold [...]
Soundgarden Ultramega OK (Expanded Reissue) Sub Pop Ultramega OK, originally released in 1988 on Greg Ginn’s legendary SST record label, was somewhat of a disappointment to the legendary alt-rockers who spawned it. Despite the album earning a [...]
Heath Green & The Makeshifters Heath Green & The Makeshifters Alive Records There appears to be a big resurgence in “real music”, you know, no loops, no synths, no samples, and basic guitar driven music played by real players. I, for [...]
Laura Marling Semper Femina Kobalt Music Group The title of Laura Marling’s latest album, Semper Femina, is Latin for “Always a Woman”. She has described it as “an exploration of modern femininity”, and the British folk singer holds true to [...]
Maker Move Your Feet Kidda Records Move Your Feet is a five track EP from UK’s Maker. This four piece band know their rock history and their music. The result is a rocking, bluesy, powerful EP. Co-produced by the band and Nick Brine, who up to [...]
