Album Reviews 1972
Bleached : Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough
Rock 'n' roll is alive and well on the fun but versatile new album by the California group.
Abbath : Outstrider
An absolute blast of a black metal record infused with the spirit of rock 'n' roll.
Purple Mountains : Purple Mountains
David Berman is back. After releasing Silver Jews’ sixth album, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, Berman said that he was done making music. He wanted to right the wrongs of his father, conservative lobbyist Richard Berman. Did he succeed? I’m not quite sure. But he’s returned to music with a new group, Purple Mountains, a new […]
Khruangbin : Hasta El Cielo
A remixed and reconfigured version of the band's 2018 album finds them discovering more grooves.
Album of the Week: Lingua Ignota – Caligula
A mixture of sacred and profane and supremely intense from the avant garde vocalist.
Pinkish Black : Concept Unification
The Texas duo oozes deeper into darkness and farther away from an explicit metal sound.
False : Portent
An epic and restorative black metal album from a band that play by their own rules.
Yellow Eyes : Rare Field Ceiling
The New York metal band's most cohesive and fully realized album to date.
Bobby Krlic : Midsommar
A strange fascinating concoction of sounds to pair with the tense new horror film from Ari Aster.
Elusive : Bonsai Tree
The California producer presents a fusion of jazz and electronic sounds entirely his own.
Album of the Week: Torche – Admission
The Miami metal outfit delivers their most refined, melodic set of music, which still sounds massive.
Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze : Offerings of Flesh and Gold
A transcendent black metal prayer.
Mannequin Pussy : Patience
The pop-punks let go of the "pop" for a set of blistering punk.
The Soft Cavalry : The Soft Cavalry
Slowdive's Rachel Goswell and her husband Steve Clarke deliver a new project of hooks and atmosphere.
Album of the Week: Immortal Bird – Thrive On Neglect
A full-blast set of blackened death metal that reveals stunning details on further listens.
Superstition : The Anatomy of Unholy Transformation
Death metal at its most primal and pure.
Mndsgn. : Snaxx
The California producer delivers another solid beat tape of rough drafts.
Christopher Willits : Sunset
An album of soothing ambience that aims to connect the listener to something larger.
Hot Chip : A Bath Full of Ecstasy
Upholding the group's status as unparalleled purveyors of pop.
Victims : The Horse and Sparrow Theory
Not the most groundbreaking hardcore record, but one that still feels pretty good.