Music
Top 5: Horseback
Jenks Miller, the father behind Horseback’s latest album, Piedmont Apocrypha, has again created a twined nest of experimental sound by combining a base of seething feedback and altering levels of oozing drone. The album as a whole lifts up the listener in a cradle to help see Miller’s vision of music as a single, fluid entity with this nongenre specific album. … read more
Review: tētēma – Geocidal
tētēma = ODDSAC-era Animal Collective – Panda Bear … read more
Review: Co-Pilgrim – Plumes
Co-Pilgrim = Mist and Mast + M. Ward … read more
Review: David Lynch – Eraserhead: Original Soundtrack Recording
Eraserhead: Original Soundtrack Recording = The Elephant Man + Twin Peaks – Dune … read more
Review: Krang – Bad Moon
Krang = Decay After Death + Discharge + Black September … read more
Top 5: Hundred Waters
Following the subtly intricate formula of their first album, Hundred Waters’ new release continues with the same airy splendor, but with more refinement. The musical foundation of this album perfectly represents 2014, a year of revitalization and self-discovery, by sounding neither senescent nor ahead of its time, but flawlessly fit into the fringes of current music. … read more
Review: Tetherball – Whimsy
Tetherball = Foxtrot Uniform / Gerard Way + The Academy Is… … read more
Review: Creepers – Lush
Creepers = Lush + Slowdive + My Bloody Valentine … read more
Review: Death From Above 1979 – The Physical World
Death From Above 1979 = Pink Mountaintops + QOTSA – Frank Black … read more
Review: Loveskills – Pure
Loveskills = Metronomy + Washed Out … read more
Top 5: Necrophagia
The legacy of horror, terror and old-school death metal that is Wellsville, Ohio’s Necrophagia keeps getting better and better. Their seventh release, WhiteWorm Cathedral, is sure to open up the seven seals of Hell and unleash the apocalypse in the form of aural destruction and mental imagery assaults. Necrophagia incorporate an almost obsessive love for horror films which, in addition to the band’s own ideas and interpretations of those horrors, have always made for fun listening. … read more
Review: Thurston Moore – The Best Day
Thurston Moore = Sonic Youth – the rest of the band + Free Kitten / Chelsea Light Moving … read more
