Authors: Ryan Hall
Review: Ryan Choi – Whenmill
Ryan Choi = William Anderson + Jack Rose + Ava Mendoza … read more
Review: Russian Circles – Memorial
When did Russian Circles transition from a second-tier post-rock band to a peerless post-everything behemoth of hair-trigger precision and cathartic terror-beauty? Russian Circles have been playing lately like the mid-’00s post-rock boom never happened. … read more
Review: Porya Hatami – Arrivals and Departures
Porya Hatami = Siavash Amini + Asfandyar Khan + Stars of the Lid … read more
Review: Pure X – Crawling Up The Stairs
Where Crawling up the Stairs doesn’t confront immediately with a sense of deep self-loathing, it seethes. Pure X is disarming in the way Nate Grace and Jesse Jenkin’s songs belie their distressed core by being quite pretty and non-confrontational. … read more
Review: Period – 2
Period = Boredoms + Dead C + Harry Pussy … read more
Review: Pas Musique – Inside the Spectrum
Pas Musique = Nommo Ogo + Scrambles of Earth + Sindre Bjerga … read more
Review: Olymphia – Music for a Dance Performance
Olymphia = Ben Frost + Micromelancolie + Pleq … read more
Review: OBNOX – Ohio EP
Canabible Ohio is a bizarre trip through hip hop, soul, punk and gospel filtered through a decrepit tape deck and speakers shot to shit. … read more
Review: Mount Eerie – Sauna
Mount Eerie = Scott Walker + Thanksgiving + Wolves in the Throne Room … read more
Review: Mogwai – Rave Tapes
If I would have bet you 10 years ago that Mogwai would return to its synth explorations on 2003’s Happy Songs for Happy People and turn into a kinda boring post-rock band that locked itself into a relentless kraut groove, I would be $12.69 richer (adjusted for inflation). … read more
Review: Metatag – Transmission
Metatag’s tape cover bears a strong resemblance to Joy Division’s classic, Unknown Pleasures, if it were isolated and magnified a couple hundred times. … read more
Review: Luka Fisher – Sleep Gallery
Luka Fisher = Psychic TV + Tarquin Manek + Electric Bird Noise … read more
