Miserable - "Loverboy / Dog Days" | Album Review
Idles - "Joy As An Act Of Resistance" | Album Review
The Love Language - "Baby Grand" | Album Review
Speedy Ortiz - "Twerp Verse" | Album Review
For a band who have thus far given us several stellar iterations of the same thing, Twerp Verse is a lot of different things. It’s the “speedy ortiz online presence?” to the band’s @speedyortiz discography, offering plenty of breathing room for Dupuis’ pop-leaning proclivities while continuing to consider the established personality of her surrounding band.
Shell Of A Shell - "Already There" | Album Review
Tape Deck Mountain - "Echo Chamber Blues" | Album Review
Mind Spiders - "Furies" | Album Review
Bee Bee Sea - "Sonic Boomerang" | Album Review
Kindling - "Hush" | Album Review
Pope - "True Talent Champion" | Album Review
True Talent Champion, Pope’s overdue follow-up to Fiction, presents the bleak, fractured narrative currently facing the contemporary rock band. In addition to Skalany and Seferian coordinating individually-penned songs, the duo—with Atticus Lopez on drums—overcome the variabilities inherent in balancing songwriting and touring as members of an additional band as well as their respective solo projects
Ty Segall Band - "Slaughterhouse" (Reissue) | Album Review
Blacklisters - "Dart" | Album Review
As the byproduct of a studio session for Too Pure Singles Club, Dart captures the band in their natural state of chaos particularly attractive in the indefatigable percussing, dissonant guitar ambling, and onomatopoeic caterwauling, which often sounds more like a second dissonant guitar than any human vocal emanation.
Acid Baby Jesus - "Lilac Days" | Album Review
Big Walnuts Yonder - "Big Walnuts Yonder" | Album Review
Oh Sees - "Orc" | Album Review
The name change isn’t merely a product of Dwyer’s indecisiveness or dissatisfaction with the “Thee,” but rather reflects the concrete change that’s taken place over the course of a few years’ experimental transition. As evinced by its terse title, Orc aims to cut the fat off last years’ trial runs and introduce the new Oh Sees thesis.
Space Camp - "Force Femmed" | Album Review
Hooded Fang - "Dynasty House" | Album Review
Dynasty House contextualizes their unconventional instrumentations by spinning tales of their ancestors’ sacrifices in the face of oppression and their families’ successive struggle to assimilate as immigrants in a country (and artistic community) where racism and genocide are addressed with ignorance and apathy.
White Suns - "Psychic Drift" | Album Review
Billy Woods - "Known Unknowns" | Album Review
Though Woods continues to appease Rap Genius scholars with his juggling of mismatched cliches, decontextualized audio samples, and left-field pop culture references, Known Unknowns proves another 60 minutes of mono-enunciated Woodspeak meticulously crafted and entirely pertinent to more complex conversations on being a minority in America.