Month: February 2016
Review: Yoko Ono – Yes, I’m a Witch Too
Yoko Ono, the frontier pushing, primal screaming, infinitely supreme goddess has given us an album thats worth boldly slipping into our party playlists, discussing relentlessly with near and distant relations, and passing out to basically anyone with at least on hand and two ears. … read more
Review: Yuck – Stranger Things
Stranger Things does maintain the tangy sweetness in both slower, lighter songs and the harder, grungier ones that have always been present in Yuck’s music. … read more
Review: Wild Nothing – Life of Pause
Wild Nothing Life of Pause Captured Tracks Street: 02.19 Wild Nothing = Toro y Moi + Beach House There is already a hype around Life of Pause with each pre-released track that comes out, especially for “TV Queen,” which features a very nostalgic synth sound that brings The Smiths, David Bowie and Washed Out to mind
Review: Winkie – Come to My Party
Winkie describe their music as the sound of drowning, imagery reflected on the cover of their second full-length album. Come To My Party is an invitation. It’s definitely not an invitation to a party with balloons and frosted cakes with kids from school giving you hastily bought presents from the thrift store. This party is more like a meat grinder with strobe lights. … read more
Review: Various Artists – 4 Doors to Death
Try though I might, I simply cannot put 4 Doors to Death down. This four-way split from Unspeakable Axe collects some new tracks from some of the filthiest, most brutal new bands to fly the tattered flag of old-school death metal. … read more
Review: Urgehal – Aeons In Sodom
These guys have arguably been at it much longer than their peers, or at least just as long, and deserve all that unearned respect you shitstains keep showering on Liturgy, whose manifesto on black metal should be illegal to own. … read more
Review: Ty Segall – Emotional Mugger
It’s risky, it’s messy and it’s unsettling, but Emotional Mugger is doing something new enough to earn pause—even if only to silently mouth the phrase, “What the fuck?” … read more
Review: Tortoise – The Catastrophist
Tortoise are not a post-rock band. Being clumsily lumped in with the likes of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Mogwai sheds little light jazz fusion’s influence on their music. … read more
Review: The Wakedead Gathering – Fuscus: Strings of the Black...
The Wakedead Gathering Fuscus: Strings of the Black Lyre I, Voidhanger Records Street: 2.05 The Wakedead Gathering = early Katatonia + Repulsion x Godflesh The band name completely threw me off on this one, I thought I was about to listen to something totally fucking shitty, like Hollywood Undead, or, to a lesser but still-pretty-fucking-shitty
Review: The Dirty Nil – Higher Power
The Dirty Nil = (PUP + FIDLAR) X (Fugazi + Smashing Pumpkins) … read more