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Pissed Jeans – Shallow (2005, Remastered 2014)
Noisy Pennsylvanians Pissed Jeans are the kind of band who could only really be signed to Sub Pop. Their unhinged, uncensored brand of punk fits perfectly into the Seattle label’s lineage, and as a...
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The Fall – Sub-Lingual Tablet (2015)
These are relatively stable times for The Fall, with guitarist Pete Greenway and bassist Dave Spurr having clocked up an impressive nine years’ service in a group where some have lasted only one gig....
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Qui – Life, Water, Living… (2014)
It’s been a good while since Qui put an album out. They’ve had plenty to contend with in the last seven years though (including Matt Cronk being injured by a roadside bomb whilst on duty in Iraq), so...
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Coliseum – Anxiety’s Kiss (2015)
The phrase “grown up” often feels like a backhanded compliment when applied to a band or its sound. It praises their current efforts by way of dismissing the steps they took to arrive at that...
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Crosss – LO (2015)
Crosss conjure the sound of empires crumbling — theirs is a tremorous, ominous, eerily isolating squall tailor-made for dilapidated castles rotting from mildew and overrun with vermin. The Toronto...
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Cursive – The Ugly Organ [Deluxe Edition] (2014)
The Deluxe Edition adds a bonus disc with eight songs that were recorded at the same time as The Ugly Organ, but didn’t make it in the album. Instead they found homes on the Saddle Creek 50...
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Dommengang – Everybody’s Boogie (2015)
Dommengang are a Brooklyn trio whose members play in Emil Amos’ Holy Sons. Fronted by guitarist/ vocalist (and former Castanet) Sig Wilson with Ancient Sky’s Adam Bulgasem on drums and Brian Markham on...
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Stefano Pilia – Blind Sun New Century Christology (2015)
Stefano Pilia’s Blind Sun New Century Christology, a co-production of Sound of Cobra and Tannen, is a sacred guitar-scape, a latenight ritual and/or animal sacrifice performed in silence in the light...
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Chris Smith – Bad Orchestra (2007, Reissue 2014)
Hermit Hut Records issuing free-improv guitarist Tashi Dorji’s album as its opening gambit offered only a portion of label honcho Ben Chasny’s sonic proclivities. Chasny, who performs both as the...
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Motorpsycho – Demon Box [Deluxe Edition] (2014)
Still the favourite with many Motorpsycho fans, the iconic Demon Box was also their breakthrough album and is a testament to their most drastic period of transition, from being a relatively, but not...
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Unwound – 6/30/1999: Reykjavik, Iceland (2014)
A deluxe version of the No Energy collection comes with a bonus LP of a live set recorded in Iceland. In the summer of 1999, Unwound spent two months crisscrossing Europe. They began in Brussels, hit...
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KEN Mode – Success (2015)
What with the return of TFI Friday and The Crystal Maze it would appear that ’90s nostalgia is getting ready to roll in earnest. It’s unlikely that KEN Mode will remember those two particular bastions...
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Sightings – Amusers and Puzzlers (2015)
Sightings’ sound was the industrial noise-rock equivalent of stumbling upon a barroom brawl, and that gnashing, mangling jumble was integral to the late NYC trio’s appeal. Spitting bile through...
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Johnny Dowd – That’s Your Wife On the Back of My Horse (2015)
Johnny Dowd has never run shy of a little self- mythology. The title of his latest effort cops a line from Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson’s 1957 tune, “Gangster of Love”, in which a no-good cowboy makes off...
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The Apartments – No Song No Spell No Madrigal (2015)
A brisk Australian chamber pop group with echoes of Frenchman Serge Gainsbourg as well as Leonard Cohen and post-punk, the Apartments were formed in Brisbane during the late ’70s by singer and...
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Fucked Up – Year of the Hare EP (2015)
Some bands treat their between-album singles with all the care of a 7th grader finishing their homework on the bus before first period, but Fucked Up are clearly not like most bands. The 2015...
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The Dream Syndicate – The Days of Wine and Roses [Expanded Reissue] (2015)
With few exceptions, the bands that rose from L.A.’s Paisley Underground scene in the ’80s had only one real thing in common — all of them were obsessed with the rock & roll touchstones of the mid-...
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The Mirror Trap – Stay Young (2014)
Listening to ‘Stay Young’, the second album from Dundee’s The Mirror Trap, it’s hard not to be impressed by their passion. It runs like a live wire through the record’s eleven songs and speaks of...
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Loop – Array 1 (2015)
Robert Hampson and his then-girlfriend Becky Stewart founded Loop in 1986, and the band underwent numerous lineup changes in their five years of existence after the couple broke up, all the while...
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Ministry – Trax! Box (2015)
Released by Cleopatra Records, the Ministry Trax! Box collects 12 inch singles, remixes, rarities, and previously unreleased material from Wax Trax!-era Ministry and Al Jourgensen-related side projects...
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