Album Reviews
The New Orleans and Portland sludge bands combine their murk to create something dark and massive.
Richard D. James gives a backstage pass to listeners with his glitchy jams.
The iconic UK grindcore pioneers continue to reshape extreme metal in their own image.
The Nashville singer/songwriter steps into center stage with a gorgeously orchestrated set of heartbroken pop songs.
The shoegazing Chicago band continues to go further down a dark rabbit hole and sometimes it seems there’s no hope of escape.
The Los Angeles singer/songwriter’s second album is a great leap forward after an impressive, lo-fi debut.
The young emcee graduates from mixtape to full-length, and comes into his own as a distinctive artist.
The Calgary-based indie rock group — featuring former members of Women — builds a vital piece of work from dark elements.
The Portland group returns with subtler melodies and stronger storytelling.
The Glasgow indie rock outfit dabbles in disco and other genre experiments.
The Portland trio make a triumphant return on their eighth album and first in 10 years.
The Pomona beatdown hardcore crew goes extra heavy and gnarly, to varying degree of success.
The Dublin based trio mixes punk and prog in a thunderous and powerful way on their full-length debut.
The Massachusetts-based indie rock group sticks to a noisy, no-nonsense style of guitar rock, and it works.
UK Black metal artist Andy Curtis-Brignell injects his powerful, hardcore-inspired sound with emotion and depth.
The garage savant just dropped a new EP full of tracks that sound like B-sides to recent albums, but still rip.
Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox steps into the most pop-forward realm of his career.
South African dream-pop artist delivers on the promise of his early singles with new EP.
The long-running trio’s first truly great album is expanded with bonus tracks on the group’s 30th anniversary.
A comic-book-style urban narrative in which the Wu-Tang affiliate plays the hero.