Abronia – Obsidian Visions/Shadowed Lands album review
Portland’s Abronia break the fourth wall on Fourth World music, delivering two sides of authentic, sax-seared sub-saharan Psych Rock! Trying to take the pulse of Portland’s music scene is difficult; … Continue reading
SoCal Gothic & The NEW American Dream: Hxxs – Valley Fever album review
With Valley Fever, Bakersfield, CA’s Hxxs dream of a new world, conjuring it into being with beat-ific communions and synthetic sanctified calls to arms. If America is the land where … Continue reading
Tortoise & Tenon: Tortoise & RJD2 @ Soul’d Out Music Festival; 4.20.2017; McMenamin’s Crystal Ballroom, Portland, Or.
Chicago’s Tortoise elevated an at-capacity crowd with their minimalist post-everything rock ‘n roll for the second night of the Soul’d Out Music Festival. The mortise and tenon joint has been … Continue reading
A Play For Today: Inca Maps – That Wasn’t Easy single review
On their second official single, “That Wasn’t Easy”, London’s Inca Maps return with a gorgeous glacial post-dubstep reflection on the death of romance. Relationships are complicated. When we’re in them, … Continue reading
Lifestyles For Apocalyptic Youth: Drvg Cvltvre – Nobody Cares Forever (New York Haunted) review
On his newest long-player for the dependable New York Haunted label, Vincent Koreman, the prolific madman behind Drvg Cvltvre subverts lifestyle branding with subversive snippets of soundbytes, with a battery … Continue reading
Finding Pleasure In Restraint: Merzbow – Music For Bondage Performance Vol. 2 review
Yes, we may chafe at restrictions, but Masami Akita, aka Merzbow‘s, Music For Bondage Performance Vol. 2 not only suggests we can find happiness in slavery, but even enlightenment. Noise … Continue reading
It’s World Autism Awareness Day! Autism – Film Noir review
On Film Noir, Vilnius, Lithuania’s Autism may mix their metaphors, but they still deliver a mighty slab of monolithic, emotional post-metal! On their most recent outing, Lithuanian post-rock architects speak … Continue reading
Grime Time: Wolf Eyes – Undertow album review
On Wolf Eyes’ first album of original material in 2 years, Undertow, the infamous Detroit noise trio return with a meditation on timelessness, filth, uncertainty, identity, leather jackets, flesh, and … Continue reading
This Is Dream Punk: Seasurfer – Under The Milkyway… Who Cares? review
Hamburg ‘dream punk’ trio Seasurfer return with their thrashiest yet most beautiful and soothing statement to date. The soundtrack for the revolutionary dreams. The originators of both shoegaze and dream … Continue reading
Mixtape Of The Week: Kindred Spirits – The Next Time You Have A Nightmare, Remember This Mixtape
embarking with the pale dead – coffins under sail – women with dead hair – pale white bakers – a dark purple river – the silence of death There are … Continue reading
