Reviews: Mirthless – A Dirge for Your Suicide

Reviews: Mirthless – A Dirge for Your Suicide
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Clearly, Mirthless possess the potential to make great funeral doom metal. However, most of the time this potential emerges after 10 minutes of the same riff, drawn out torturously long. … read more

Reviews: Ministry – From Beer to Eternity

Reviews: Ministry – From Beer to Eternity
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I still think Ministry’s best stuff is the ‘80s new wave dreck that they only released so they could get a label deal, but this last hurrah was impossible to pass up.  … read more

Reviews: Migrant Kids – Self-Titled

Reviews: Migrant Kids – Self-Titled
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Migrant Kids’ debut doesn’t redefine anything, but they’re adept at creating relaxed, layered atmospheres of sound that build from stark keys to triumphant choruses.  … read more

Reviews: The Memories – Love is the Law

Reviews: The Memories – Love is the Law
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Erik Gage and Kyle Handley use The Memories as a vehicle to express sunny dispositions, drug-dazed sentiments and other elements that can’t be shrieked in the syntax of their preceding punk band, White Fang. … read more

 
 
Reviews: Mavis – Start Over

Reviews: Mavis – Start Over
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This is an album that would be easy to skip over unless you were looking, since its spine is unassuming strummy guitar and modest, youthful vocals. … read more

Reviews: Maps – Vicissitude

Reviews: Maps – Vicissitude
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James Chapman, the force behind Maps, began these songs at his Northamptonshire home, the place where his Mercury Prize-nominated debut We Can Create was recorded. … read more

Reviews: Lycus – Tempest

Reviews: Lycus – Tempest
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It’s clear that Lycus know and understand their influences rather well, combining an atonal USBM riffing style with long sections of legitimately heavy and atmospheric funeral doom. … read more

Reviews: Lemuria – The Distance Is So Big

Reviews: Lemuria – The Distance Is So Big
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Masters of melancholy adorableness, Lemuria’s third LP sounds as though it could be a long-lost relic of early ‘90s indie rock—and that’s a good thing.  … read more

Reviews: John Tole – Reign in Laughs

Reviews: John Tole – Reign in Laughs
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For a comic who calls himself the “Slayer of Comedy,” John Tole spends a paltry amount of his set discussing metal. … read more

Reviews: Jamaican Queens – Wormfood

Reviews: Jamaican Queens – Wormfood
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While more notable acts like Purity Ring and Sleigh Bells benefit from finer production, Jamaican Queens fall short in this area.  … read more