Deine Lakaien Dual+ Prophecy Productions German darkwave project Deine Lakaien’s 11th studio album, Dual+, follows the duo’s style from the preceding release Dual. Peppered with covers, including three from contemporaries, and one traditional [...]
THE TEA PARTY SUNSHOWER COALITION MUSIC/WARNER MUSIC CANADA Canadian rock trio The Tea Party offer something different with their new EP Sunshower. Well-known for their dark and moody offerings in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, the band’s sound [...]
Black Label Society Doom Crew Inc. eOne Music Following up their last album, 2018’s Grimmest Hits – and 2019’s remastered 20th anniversary reissue of Sonic Brew, Black Label Society is back with their 10th studio album, Doom Crew Inc. The [...]
Allison Lorenzen Tender Whited Sepulchre Records Sometimes an artist can truly resemble another. At other times, they are creating their art along usually a very thin line between two or more artists. In the case of Allison Lorenzen, [...]
USS The Science And Artfunkel Victory Lap Coalition Music USS might be heading out on their Final Freakquency tour, but that didn’t stop them from dropping the surprise album The Science and Artfunkel Victory Lap. Released on on all major [...]
Papercuts Baxter’s Bliss EP Slumberland Records After taking a brief hiatus to focus on production with bands like Beach House and Sugar Candy Mountain, Jason Quever has returned as Papercuts to present Baxter’s Bliss. The digital-only EP [...]
Brian Wilson At My Piano Decca Records How should you consider an all-instrumental piano album of the songwriting genius that is Brian Wilson, best known for coming up with probably the best vocal harmonies in modern music as a member of The [...]
Beach Fossils The Other Side of Life: Piano Ballads Bayonet Records Four years after their last studio album Somersault, Beach Fossils has reworked eight songs from their back catalogue into a compilation of slower jazz arrangements featuring [...]
Jah Wobble Metal Box – Rebuilt In Dub Cleopatra Records Jah Wobble formed Public Image Limited (P.I.L.) with John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, when Rotten had left The Sex Pistols in 1978.He then left the band he helped create after their [...]
MAYDAY PARADE WHAT IT MEANS TO FALL APART RISE RECORDS Since 2005, Mayday Parade has been a strong presence in the pop-punk and alternative scene. An unwavering sound for the past 16 years that seems to mature and get more solid with time, [...]
The Darkness Motorheart Cooking Vinyl The Darkness have been the go-to band for tongue in cheek glam rock, with the secret being that musically, they are insanely talented and their songs sonically are off the charts. With this in mind, [...]
The Jazz Butcher Dr Cholmondley Repents: A-Sides, B-Sides And Seasides Fire Records This is not an easy review to write. Sadly, Pat Fish, also known as The Jazz Butcher, passed away on October 5, 2021. Born Patrick Guy Sibley Huntrods, he was [...]
Viola Swamp Bad Dreams Tarantula Tapes Under the name Viola Swamp, Ontario based punk badass Taylor Cos (Hysterics, formerly of The Anti-Queens) has released her debut solo album. Bad Dreams, released via Tarantula Tapes, The album follows her [...]
Lee Ranaldo In Virus Times Mute In Virus Times. What might have seemed like a science or speculative fiction title even in Autumn of 2019 now is a reality check one two years on. Many artists have decided to record music dealing with their [...]
Log Across The Water Funny How The Colors Crash Symbols When an artist dubs himself (or herself) as Log Across the Washer, you are bound to hear something that is certainly a bit out in left field, something that you would either love or discard [...]
Nirvana Nevermind (30th Anniversary Edition) Universal Nevermind is a timeless classic, a truly generational album that is still wildly applauded and discussed today, three decades later. Upon its original release on September 24, 1991, [...]
Land Of Talk Calming Night Partner Dine Alone Records/Saddle Creek Recorded on the heels of 2020’s acclaimed Indistinct Conversations, indie band Land of Talk has returned with a 4-track EP entitled Calming Night Partner, a collection of lush, [...]
Damon Albarn The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows Transgressive Rercords The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows sharply diverges from Damon Albarn’s well-known recordings with Gorillaz, Blur, and The Good, the Bad, [...]
LIONLIMB SPIRAL GROOVE BAYONET RECORDS Lionlimb is yet another moniker, this time of one Stewart Broanaugh, a bandmate of ever-growing talent of Angle Olsen. And on the evidence of his solo album. Spiral Groove, Broanaugh, or Lionlimb might just [...]
Willie Nelson The Willie Nelson Family Legacy Recordings Even with all Willie Nelson fans there was always a sense of familiarity whenever one of the greatest country (and other music) stars releases a new album. They would always know to expect [...]
Martha And The Muffins Marthology: In And Outtakes Popguru Sound And Vision The last Martha And The Muffins album was Delicate, released in 2010. It seemed that that would be their last as a group for a number of reasons. By then Martha And The [...]
Lee “Scratch” Perry & New Age Doom Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Guide To The Universe We Are Busy Bodies Lee “Scratch” Perry’s legacy of sonic innovation lives on beyond his sudden passing earlier this year on his new [...]
Terry Draper The Other Side Magentalane Music For my money, Klaatu did not release enough albums. Terry Draper, however, is doing his best to make up for that. One third of Klaatu, he is remarkably prolific. In 2020 he released two albums [...]
Alan Parsons The NeverEnding Show: Live In The Netherlands Frontiers Music SRL Alan Parsons started his musical life as a studio-only musician, as well as an engineer and producer. He famously worked on The Beatles’s Abbey Road, Pink Floyd’s [...]
