Posts filed under “album Review”
Extra Life – Splayed Flesh
Extra Life is the current project of Charlie Looker, multi-instrumentalist composer who was in the “brutalist chamber group” Zs and worked with Brooklyn heroes The Dirty Projectors. Using what was described as a combination of “Medieval change, hardcore, dark neofolk abstract modernism and lush pop” there is a degree of intimidation up front, as though [...]
Rebels Eat Apples – Body Popular
Rebels Eat Apples album Body Popular is a bit of a hidden gem. A multi-faceted pop soaked lowest fidelity high tone hilarious bobby sock crotch rot great time. Filled with simple songs that flow in that stupid smart way that the best garage punk revivalists straddle.
The Men – ‘Immaculada’
The Men’s first full length album Immaculada entices and repulses. Relying on a lot of current tropes in the “best” of hardcore music right now it also injects a lot of now forgotten or ignored sounds back into the musical conversation which is the punk scene. This has the effect where half of the album [...]
Black Wine – ‘Black Wine’
Black Wine’s self titled debut is a combination of punk pop and late eighties early nineties alternative bands, there is the three chord sugarpop frenzy of bands like The Decendents and Agent Orange and the earnestness sound and structure of bands like Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr, and other assorted 120 Minutes alums. Like an episode of [...]
Daylight Robbery – ‘Through The Confusion’
Mystery by Daylight Robbery When using the term adult punk, it makes me think of post-hardcore or post-punk acts, where bands like Fugazi tempered the elements of Minor Threat and Rites of Spring to generate a kind of controlled energy and lyrics less about how things “should be” and rather how things “are.” Though that’s [...]
Slices – Cruising
Slices’ first full length Cruising(Iron Lung Records) is an absolutely amazing piece of work. The twenty minutes of music is a great combination of hardcore, noise, and art tying rage at life and the joy in the act of creation together to create a band that has gone backwards, working from noise rock roots to [...]
Holy Fuck – ‘Latin’
The first time I saw Holy Fuck perform was back in 2007 where they opened for !!! as part of the Myth Takes tour. It was two guys attacking a pair Dan Deacon-like equipment strewn card tables with the intensity of Victor Frankenstein bringing his creation to life. Like Frankenstein, they too have created a [...]
Tecla Esposito, Unmasked
edit: This is no longer available to download free from bandcamp, but you can buy it through Amazon and Itunes Tecla’s freshly released first album Strangers in Masks has been my go to album for the past two weeks. When I’m not listening to something for an assignment I cue up the album right at [...]
Keretta – ‘Vilayer’
In Vilayer, New Zealand’s Keretta have crafted a heavy, soupy album that drowns the listener in riffs that would crush the sturdiest of submarines. Forsaking the lyrics, often the weakest element of stoner or doom rock, this three-piece has focused on the best elements, creating a soundscape that is at turns nearly so abstract as [...]
Punk Rawk Roundup
Defect Defect – Self/Titled 12” (Residue Records) – This first release from the Portland, Oregon band is a great slab of melodic punk with a strong political element that goes beyond “death to the right wing” myopic tropes that hang over the heads of punk rock since the 70s. One thing that I found is [...]