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Slabdragger & Wren – Mothers of Beef and the Magic of Invention EP (2017)
Covers are a tricky thing to get right. Play it too safe and you’re left with something that resembles the original so closely you think ‘what was the point?’, but veer too far from the source material...
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U-Men – U-Men (2017)
Given the time (the ’80s) and place (Seattle, Washington) in which their career took place, it’s not surprising that the U-Men are widely acknowledged as important but little heard precursors to the...
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Trupa Trupa – Jolly New Songs (2017)
To ingest Trupa Trupa’s Jolly New Songs is to wonder what kind of mushrooms are growing outside behind the band’s practice space in Gdansk. The drugs are working, just not quite how you would expected...
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Prettiest Eyes – Pools (2017)
Bold, lacerating, anarchic noise for the new generation of psych-rock listeners. Prettiest Eyes will polarise listeners because of the outwardly dissonant sound on Pools. John Dwyer of The Oh Sees has...
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The Fall – Singles 1978-2016 (2017)
Joining the ranks of the six-disc The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 and the five-disc The Fall Box Set, Singles 1978-2016 is another ambitious repackaging of the seemingly endless catalog of...
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VA – Teen Spirit: Mojo Presents 15 Noise-Filled Classics from the American...
1. Rocket from the Crypt – Short Lip Fuser 2. Afghan Wigs – I’m Her Slave 3. The Jesus Lizard – Gladiator 4. Urge Overkill – The Kids Are Insane 5. 7 Year Bitch – Chow Down 6. Pavement – Here 7....
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Half Japanese – Why Not? (2018)
Why Not? is the latest instalment of twisted shambolic indie-pop from Jad Fair’s Half Japanese. Over a 42 year career the band have made 16 studio albums that will make you laugh, cry, dance, shout and...
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Circus Devils – Laughs Last (2017)
Robert Pollard and the Tobias brothers have been releasing material together under the moniker Circus Devils for about 16 years now. In that time they’ve managed to release 14 albums, with this new...
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Mudhoney – LiE (2018)
LiE (Live in Europe) is Mudhoney’s first live album (ignoring bootlegs and limited editions). It’s an imperfect, chaotic slab of fuzz and screaming, and also a good excuse to remember how awesome...
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Mind Spiders – Furies (2018)
Judging from the sound of their fifth album, 2018’s Furies, Mind Spiders have either seriously upped their game or they’ve found a better and more reliable source for vintage synthesizers. While Mind...
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DZ Deathrays – Bloody Lovely (2018)
In the time since Brisbane two-piece DZ Deathrays released their last album, 2014’s Black Rat, the “two guy rock band” gimmick has become a highly prominent entity. Perhaps the most notable duo are...
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Anna von Hausswolff – Dead Magic (2018)
Anna Von Hausswolff has announced fourth record Dead Magic. The follow-up to 2015’s The Miraculous is scheduled to arrive on March 2 via City Slang. “Me, my band and Randall Dunn spent nine days in...
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Asexuals – Brave New Waves Session (2017)
Formed in 1983, Asexuals began as a hardcore punk band (fronted by John Kastner, who later started The Doughboys), but really shined as an alternative rock band, with Dish, the 1988 Cargo Records...
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VA – Silhouettes & Statues: A Gothic Revolution 1978-1986 (2017)
Goth, a dirty word for so long, has enjoyed a resurgence over the past ten years or so. Previously known as the spawn of post punk, now the boundaries between the two genres are so blurry they’re...
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Television Personalities – Beautiful Despair (2018)
After Television Personalities finished recording their classic Privilege album, they had to wait two years until it was actually released. In the interim, main Personality Daniel Treacy kept writing...
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Terminal Mind – Recordings (2018)
Formed in 1978, in the first blast of Texas punk, Terminal Mind sounds remarkably fresh and prescient today, more than three decades since the group splintered in the heat of the Lone Star sun. In its...
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Palm – Rock Island (2018)
Back in 2015, Palm released their fidgety, excitable debut, Trading Basics, and it had them quickly pegged as the mercurial love child of Deerhoof and Slint. While continuing to bear some of the...
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Palm – Shadow Expert EP (2017)
When you hang with the same people long enough, you inevitably invent your own dialect with them. You also probably get sick of them occasionally. Palm’s Kasra Kurt, Eve Alpert, Hugo Stanley, and...
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Bad Breeding – Divide (2017)
With a sound owing as much to the agnostic rage of 1980s punk bands like Discharge and Crass as it does the experimental noise tendencies of Killing Joke, not to mention overtly politicised lyrics to...
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Screaming Females – All at Once (2018)
Having played together for over a decade, New Jersey’s Screaming Females continued dedication to the DIY spirit has earned them a unique place in the history of 21st century guitar music. In a...
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