If Wire had called it a day after releasing their first three seminal records (which they supposedly had at the time), it would have been enough to cement Album Reviews
Wire
Mind Hive
February 12th, 2020 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
If Wire had called it a day after releasing their first three seminal records (which they supposedly had at the time), it would have been enough to cement
Pere Ubu
The Long Goodbye
October 30th, 2019 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
It’s been 40-some years since Pere Ubu emerged from the ashes of Rocket from the Tombs, so one could be forgiven for thinking that the seminal
Baby Shakes
Cause a Scene
September 24th, 2019 | by Richard Sanford | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Baby Shakes bring renewed vigor and focus to their spiked-sugar attack with their fourth album, Cause a Scene. The title track’s burst of aggression belies ease
Jenny Hval
The Practice of Love
September 16th, 2019 | by Richard Sanford | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Jenny Hval trades the signifiers of expansiveness and rawness of her earlier work for an investigation into deceptively smoother surfaces on her seventh
Various Artists
Tiny Changes: A Celebration of The Midnight Organ Fight
August 5th, 2019 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Longtime Agit readers will know that we fell in love with Frightened Rabbit via the Scottish band’s second album, 2008’s The
Mac DeMarco
Here Comes the Cowboy
May 7th, 2019 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Thanks to a special kind of charisma and an excellent run of early releases (Rock and Roll Night Club, 2, and Salad Days), Mac DeMarco became a titan in indie
Aldous Harding
Designer
May 3rd, 2019 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
As she revealed on her breakthrough sophomore album, Party, Aldous Harding is an artist capable of shapeshifting not only track to track, but at times
Steve Earle
Guy
April 12th, 2019 | by Richard Sanford | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
When Steve Earle’s sometimes-mentor and friend for decades, Guy Clark, left this world in 2016, Earle commemorated the passing with one of his
Tredici Bacci
La Fine Del Futuro
March 25th, 2019 | by Richard Sanford | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Tredici Bacci’s kaleidoscopic sophomore album, La Fine Del Futuro, explodes and deepens leader Simon Hanes’ preoccupations with Italian soundtracks
Cloud Nothings
Last Building Burning
December 10th, 2018 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
For Cloud Nothings, last year’s Life Without Sound was intentionally meant to be a different album. It was a scary thought, especially considering the strength of