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 Album Reviews
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
Escape-ism
The Lost Record
September 11th, 2018 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
As the frontman of such acts as Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, Weird War, and more, Ian Svenonius has never shied away from melding high concept with