ANDY BELL TEN CROWNS CROWN RECORDINGS LTD. Vince Clarke and Andy Bell joined forces as Erasure in 1985, when they released their debut single, “Who Needs Love Like That”. Erasure is still going strong (they have released 19 studio albums), but [...]
ABIGAIL LAPELL ANNIVERSARY & MORE SONGS ABOUT LOVE OUTSIDE MUSIC If you are a close follower of Spill Magazine you’ve surely noticed that there are quite a few reviews of Abigail Lapell’s albums around here, and there is quite a [...]
SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS NATURALLY (20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) DAPTONE RECORDS Twenty years ago, the late Sharon Jones, alongside backing band The Dap-Kings, released their sophomore album Naturally. The record was a milestone for not [...]
LUCIUS LUCIUS FANTASY RECORDS After years on the scene, four previous albums, numerous collaborations and singles, you just might be turning a new leaf if you are releasing your fifth album as a self-titled one, and for the first time at that. [...]
MESSER CHUPS DON’T WORRY, BE CREEPY GUITARACULA RECORDS/HI-TIDE & NU-TONE RECORDINGS Messer Chups debuted in 2004 with the album, Vamp Babies. Nearly 21 years later, the punk band from St. Petersburg, Russia has released a number of [...]
LOWEST OF THE LOW OVER YEARS AND OVERNIGHT SONIC ENVY/CURVE MUSIC Lowest Of The Low shift gears with the band’s seventh studio LP album Over Years And Overnight. Recent releases were more politically unsettled in nature, while Over Years And [...]
THE FLOWER KINGS LOVE INSIDE OUT MUSIC Roine Stolt formed The Flower Kings in 1994 in order to tour and promote his solo album The Flower King. That touring group morphed into The Flower Kings, and Love is their 17th studio album (they have also [...]
MISSVNARIES OV CHARITY PETROLEVM JELLY UTÅT NERÅT RECORDS/INÅT BAKÅT MISSVNARIES ov CHARITY is a three-piece band, based in Copenhagen. Their name translates to Missionaries of Charity. Petrolevm Jelly is their second release (they released [...]
CAR SEAT HEADREST THE SCHOLARS MATADOR RECORDS It is always exciting whenever a band decides to do a concept album, whether that be telling a very structured narrative about one or multiple characters or having each song be connected [...]
SEXTILE YES, PLEASE SACRED BONES LA’s electronic punk techno rave two-piece Sextile are back with their new album yes, please, and they’ve managed to push their sound even further on this infectious collection of beat-pounding songs. We’re [...]
MARK GANE GARDEN MUSIC MUFFIN MUSIC Mark Gane, of Martha And The Muffins fame, has been working on Garden Music, his first solo album, for many years. He wanted to get it just right, and he did. Garden Music is very different from what you may [...]
LAURA REZNEK THE SEWING ROOM INDEPENDENT Laura Reznek moved from her native British Columbia to Britain, but judging by her latest album The Sewing Room, that didn’t seem to have made much influence on her sticking to her best musical [...]
THE CHRIS ROLLING SQUAD DAMN YOU ALL TO…HELL CIMEX RECORDS/GHOST HIGHWAY RECORDINGS An absolute pleasure to my earholes, this album is a true earworm, weaving its way in and out of my brain. The Chris Rolling Squad’s Damn You All To…Hell [...]
WILLIE NELSON OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL WORLD LEGACY RECORDINGS The iconic Willie Nelson, a Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famer and 14-time GRAMMY® winner has released, Oh What A Beautiful World. This marks his 77th solo studio project and the 154th in total, [...]
HAREM SCAREM CHASING EUPHORIA FRONTIERS MUSIC SRL Canada’s Harem Scarem has been making records since 1991 and has built up a substantial audience over the years. Chasing Euphoria is their 16th album and the first since 2020’s Chase The World. [...]
MONK DARK SIDE OF THE MIND DINE ALONE RECORDS/TARANTULA TAPES Self-described as west coast Zen hardcore, Monk has returned with Dark Side Of The Mind. Not only does this mark the band’s first release since 2023’s Rock, but it is also their [...]
HAWKSLEY WORKMAN FLY LIKE AN EGO ISADORA RECORDS Hawksley Workman’s newest release, the six-song EP Fly Like An Ego, is a continuation of the wonderfully creative and eclectic world of Hawksley Workman. Produced by Workman’s frequent [...]
BRONCHO NATURAL PLEASURE BRONCHO WORLDWIDE Indie rock darlings Broncho finally have a new album, Natural Pleasure. This is their first album since 2018’s Bad Behavior in which the band incorporated more pop elements into the mix. Yet again, [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS GOING OUT OF MY HEAD: ADVENTURES ON THE INDIE DANCEFLOOR 1995-1999 CHERRY RED RECORDS Each decade has several dominating genres that flood a dance floor, and it was no different in the 1990s. The difference in the late 1990s was [...]
DOMI HAWKEN WATER AND THE WINE INDEPENDENT The term ‘mash-up’ is used far too often and not always correctly. In the case of Domi Hawken, there really is no other term to describe her own brand of music. There are elements of punk, hard rock, [...]
SIMPLE MINDS LIVE IN THE CITY OF DIAMONDS BMG Simple Minds is a band that enjoys what it does. They have established themselves as a classic band and still they continue to release new (and brilliant music) and they tour relentlessly. Simple [...]
THE BLUE KNOTS BECOMING NOISE INDEPENDENT Danielle Stech-Homsy might not be a big fan of social media (many won’t blame her), but she is not exactly a newcomer. As Rio en Medio, she previously made a bit of a name for herself with music [...]
PEARL HARBOR & THE EXPLOSIONS PEARL HARBOR & THE EXPLOSIONS LIBERATION HALL/MVD Pearl Harbor & The Explosions may have been part of the punk movement in San Francisco, but they were never really punk. By 1980, Pearl Harbor and The [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS BROWN ACID: THE TWENTIETH TRIP RIDINGEASY RECORDS Even though the Grateful Dead might not fit within the hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal subgenres that is the subject matter of the Brown Acid compilation series, their now [...]
