When Lower put out their noisy spurt of an EP, Walk on Heads, in 2012, it seemed Copenhagen's scene of downer punk had successfully infiltrated Album Reviews
Lower
Seek Warmer Climes
July 8th, 2014 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
When Lower put out their noisy spurt of an EP, Walk on Heads, in 2012, it seemed Copenhagen's scene of downer punk had successfully infiltrated
Hamilton Leithauser
Black Hours
July 7th, 2014 | by Matt Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
I do miss The Walkmen. They were one of my favorite live acts, getting better and better all the time, and their records arrived with
Echo and the Bunnymen
Meteorites
July 3rd, 2014 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
If you were to listen to Echo and the Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch, each record the band has released since reforming in 1997 has been the best
A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Sea When Absent
June 30th, 2014 | by Kevin J. Ellliott | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Until now, A Sunny Day in Glasgow was a band that dealt in fragments, ephemeral melodies concentrated upon for mere moments then tossed
The Fresh & Onlys
House of Spirits
June 27th, 2014 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
How you start isn’t necessarily how you’ll end up. That’s generally true in life, but seems to take on greater significance in the music world. While
Bob Mould
Beauty & Ruin
June 26th, 2014 | by Matt Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Mr. Mould worked slowly but surely on his “return to form” for four years or so, beginning with the middle bits of 2009’s Life and Times and climaxing
Centro-matic
Take Pride in Your Long Odds
June 24th, 2014 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Broadly speaking, Centro-matic once belonged to the alt-country nation, but much like a toddler and shoes, the band has quickly outgrown that label
White Lung
Deep Fantasy
June 20th, 2014 | by Kevin J. Ellliott | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Let's skip the semantics of Mish Way on Deep Fantasy. This is White Lung's breakthrough album, and just as much as the sonics are inflated and
Human Potential
Heartbreak Record
June 19th, 2014 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
There’s going solo, which most often means leaving one band to lead another, and then there’s solo, the classic one-man band model of one person with
Herzog
Boys
June 17th, 2014 | by Kevin J. Ellliott | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Per Huey Lewis, the heart of rock & roll is, after all, in Cleveland, so despite my frequent biases against the mistake on the lake, the city has produced bursts