Words by Ran Xu There is a certain magic to the Brighton-based quartet Lime Garden, and it is captured beautifully in their sophomore record Maybe
‘Feu et Joie’ or Fire and Joy in English, praises the void between things… it praises the time that goes slow and the rage of
Photos by Mary Claire McCoy “You’ve gotta check out this band ‘Gun‘,” I tell a friend over a Wednesday afternoon phone call. “They’re gonna bring
Album Cover for LOVECITY – photo by Edouard Richard ‘She loves violence!’ shrieks Rebecca Baby on ‘national honey’, the first song off their new album
A so-called remake of their 2015 album of the same name, Our Brand Could Be Yr Life provides a scathing critique of consumerism to the
Photo by Cal McIntyre No band has had as much hype this past year as The Last Dinner Party. Having gained a dedicated and zealous fan
Slow Pulp’s sophomore album, Yard, is the perfect soundtrack for the true beginning of fall, when summer flings have died and there’s still a few
Photo by Lauren Davis “It’s Frost Children’s world and we’re just living in it” — a claim boldly stated by the sibling duo’s PR. Just
Wednesday’s newest release shows the group at their strongest. I remember listening to “Bull Believer” last year, and knowing immediately it would become one of
Death Valley Girls have built a reputation on the power of community, from their earliest leather studded girl-gang stylings to benevolent psychedelic cult leaders on
If any criticism could be levied against White Reaper it’s that the band is consistent, nearly to a fault. Three LPs of increasingly adept power-pop
Arctic Monkeys have released their long awaited and highly anticipated seventh studio album, The Car. The album continues in the foreseeable development of Alex Turner’s vision
Sorry makes me mad. It should not be allowed for one group of people to be as unnecessarily talented as they are. ‘Anywhere But Here’
Crack Cloud’s Tough Baby is blistering and scratching, an orchestrated chaos. The Canadian art collective’s approach to making music has never just stopped there (with the
Photo by Todd Fisher If there’s one thing Chicago has besides hot dogs, deep dish and a massive silver bean, it’s good music, and Horsegirl is
2019 still feels so vivid in my memory. It was the year I interviewed Fontaines D.C. before they played their first show in America. They
Photo by Jack Moran At long last, The Lazy Eyes’ debut LP has arrived! The ramp up to Songbook has been strong and steady, supported
Presented as a concept album in three acts, Pleasure Craft’s debut LP Walls, Mirrors, and Windows taps directly into peak-industrial aesthetics to deliver a zeitgeist
Photo by Kyle Thomas Sasami Ashworth reunites us with dynamics and emotionally atypical paradigms in her second full length release, Squeeze. Through Squeeze, SASAMI converges
A Place to Bury Strangers (APTBS) builds a bridge between melancholic dread and fury on their album See Through You out today via Dedstrange Records.
We’re all at the point where if we didn’t have to utter the words “post punk” again, we could live very happily for the rest
Operating from a different angle than the shadowy psych-doom project Stonefield where she holds down the low-end, Holly Findlay used her time in COVID lockdown
Photo by V Robitaille I am such a sucker for dark music, especially when its in the synth pop universe. Boy Deluxe‘s new EP Risen transports
Art by Kealan Shilling If the French are known for anything it’s a staunch refusal to be restrained by convention of any kind, be it political
Photo by Jamie Wdziekonski From bushfires to a pandemic, protected and hiding behind masks, but more visible than ever through the comforts of creativity, Amyl
Baltimore band Turnstile has been revolutionizing hardcore the last decade, mastering the art of genre fusion and creating a sound entirely different from anything else
Photo by Charlie Boss Indigo De Souza’s sophomore album Any Shape You Take is a breakthrough release for the indie singer-songwriter, combining a wide array
Neil Young once wrote that “you’ve got to crawl to be tall.” This line, musing upon the idea that one must experience infancy before mastery,
It’s remarkable how quickly The Lazy Eyes have accumulated acclaim since releasing their first EP in mid-2020, like a tiny snowball steadily picking up speed
live photos by Steph Port “Look to your left, look to your right. We’re all friends.” As the sun set the stage at Spoke Bicycle
Wolf Alice’s third album rapidly entangles us in between rhythms and a spectacle of asseverations and questions from lead singer and guitarist, Ellie Rowsell. Blue
When a new artist releases an incredible debut album, one usually fears a sophomore slump. With Calvacade, Black Midi overcame this feat despite being short-handed.
