Someone once said that suffering breeds great art, but I wonder what they would have made of a year spent dealing with a global pandemic. For 20 years Album Reviews
Arab Strap
As Days Get Dark
March 17th, 2021 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Someone once said that suffering breeds great art, but I wonder what they would have made of a year spent dealing with a global pandemic. For 20 years
Adulkt Life
Book of Curses
November 16th, 2020 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
With the band including members of Huggy Bear and Male Bonding, it’s hard not to have high expectations for the debut album from Adulkt Life, Book of Curses
Melenas
Dias Raros
June 29th, 2020 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Melenas, which translates roughly to “heads of hair,” are an all-female quartet hailing from Pamplona, Spain (yep, of bulls running through the streets fame)
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