Category: Reviews

Passing listeners will have trouble wrapping their arms and ears around this high-art concept album, which uses sonic pastiche and genre-mutating frameworks to profile…

These math-rock giants have returned from the grave with a rejiggered line-up and a set of blistering instrumentals whose finest moments call to mind…

Sludgy death marches meet droning psychedelic rock on this 10-track head trip for Velvet Underground descendants. The songs, which veer toward the monochromatic, offer…

Everyone’s favorite Akron, Ohio-based duo offers six songs from the Junior Kimbrough catalog, treating listeners to Mississippi Delta blues numbers that sound as instinctive…

All that’s deceptively fragile and wonderful continues percolating across the pond as post-rock’s reigning Scottish quintet offers its newest set of scorching barn-burners and…

With radio waves pulsing with reggaeton, “All For U” resonates with vaguely sun-splashed bass grooves but, that aside, this 14-song disc feels like a…

Another half-hearted attempt to prove nu-metal isn’t dead by adding sophomoric acoustic refrains, whiny power ballads or pointless samples to the landscape of paint-by-numbers…

Oh, Morrissey and Robert Smith, what legacy have you left us? Another band tries its hand at fey 80’s-conscious guitar-pop and crafts songs that…

The cover co-opts the psychological terror of a Francis Bacon portrait, but don’t be fooled. This is a safe record not far removed from…

This is the story of a phoenix. Forged in Pittsburgh back around 1991, Don Caballero wasted little time in refining and perfecting its thunderous…