Review: VNV Nation – Transnational - SLUG Magazine

Review: VNV Nation – Transnational

Posted on December 31, 2013 (August 25, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

VNV Nation - Transnational album artwork

Remaining true to their sound, VNV Nation have stuck with their trendy, almost mainstream, future pop style that created their popularity. … read more

Review: Windhand – Soma

Posted on December 31, 2013 (August 19, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

Soma echoes the smoke-wreathed incantations of Electric Wizard with their heavy, powerful riffing and foreboding atmosphere. However, Windhand tones down the grooviness of the British black wizards, aiming instead for something closer to a traditional doom sound. … read more

Review: Winkie – One Day We Pretended To Be Ghosts

Posted on February 6, 2014 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

Winkie’s inclination toward the melodic structure buried beneath the fuzz is what places them alongside their already established peers. Was mbv too full of love for your horizontal head? Eat at Winkie’s! … read more

Review: William Fitzsimmons – Lions

Posted on February 6, 2014 (May 18, 2023) by Asha Pruitt

Cover art for Lions by William Fitzsimmons.

Musically minimal and delicate, juxtaposed with dense lyrics, William Fitzsimmons manages to create an album that is both contemplative and intense without being dull or impenetrable. It is clean without being overproduced, emotional without being cliché and is personal while still being relatable. … read more

Review: Wax Fang – The Astronaut

Posted on February 6, 2014 (August 25, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

While you may roll your eyes at the pretense of a concept album about an astronaut emerging from a black hole as a limitless superbeing, it is hard to fault the ambitious scope of this project—two musicians from Louisville, KY scoring these massive, soaring, 10-minute-plus epics with symphonic scores, brawny psych guitar work and droning atmospherics. … read more

Review: Weekend – The ’81 Demos

Posted on March 6, 2014 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

The demos presented here are more sparse in sound and instrumentation than the tracks that later appeared on 1982’s La Varieté, the only album released by the band. This is a short set of songs, but it’s rather beautiful, and without any moments wasted. … read more

Review: White Suns – Totem

Posted on April 3, 2014 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

White Suns encapsulate destruction par excellence with Totem. One may first recall works like Jane Doe with opening track “Priest in the Laboratory,” with its contra-time signatures and cacophonous electric-guitar malfunctioning and anti-chords—it’s sporadic, broken movement. … read more