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Mudhoney – Real Low Vibe: The Reprise Recordings 1992-1998 (2021)
Mudhoney are Seattle’s entry into the long history of great bands who blazed a trail that made others rich while they were doomed to eventually go back to their day jobs. The grunge explosion of the...
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The Body – I’ve Seen All I Need to See (2021)
In some ways, The Body‘s first non-collaborative studio album since 2018’s I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer. is one of their more stripped-down records, mainly focusing on drums,...
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Editrix – Tell Me I’m Bad (2021)
Wendy Eisenberg shreds. The guitarist peels off several spectacular solos on Editrix’s debut album Tell Me I’m Bad, most of them chaotic and raw, a couple winding and lyrical, and all inspiring visions...
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Thurston Moore – screen time (2021)
Thurston Moore has followed up his sixth studio album, By The Fire, with the release of a surprise instrumental album, titled screen time. After first announcing the unexpected new album on Twitter,...
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Paul Leary – Born Stupid (2021)
“I could have been a doctor or a lawyer, playing golf with my rich friends at the club” bemoans Paul Leary on the title track of his first solo album in 30 years. That, however, would have deprived the...
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Cower – Boys (2020)
Not ones to rest on their laurels after releasing music with various projects this year, Wayne Adams (PETBRICK/Big Lad) and Gareth Thomas (USA Nails/Silent Front) have joined forces to create yet...
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Melvins – Working with God (2021)
The Melvins have stretched belligerence into a fine art and then some over their many active years. From formless, jagged noise rock to Dadaist sludge metal, the one uniting theme through their career...
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Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – CARNAGE (2021)
…At 63, Nick Cave’s artistic standing only seems to be growing: the Bad Seeds somehow graduated to playing arenas on the back of 2016’s harrowing Skeleton Tree, their least commercial-sounding album in...
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Vapour Theories – Celestial Scuzz (2021)
The fabulous furry Gibbons brothers are back with a new album, but it’s probably not the ones you’re thinking of. John and his sibling Michael hail not from Texas, but from somewhere north east, in the...
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Pere Ubu – In the Shadow of the Aeronautical Shot Peening Co: Live at the...
Recorded by David Thomas on a cassette at the Pirate’s Cove, Old River Road, Cleveland, Ohio, on June 2 1977. Previously released as ‘Pirate’s Cove 6/2/77.’ Led by hulking frontman David Thomas –...
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Gang of Four – Entertainment! / Solid Gold (2021)
One of the most influential and groundbreaking bands to rise from the British punk scene in the late ’70s, Gang of Four took the freedoms and possibilities presented by punk and brought them to wild...
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The Fall – Live @ Newcastle Riverside 4th November 2011 (2020)
When Mark E Smith died in January 2018, an era ended with him. The Fall were an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. They underwent many line-up changes, with...
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Tomahawk – Tonic Immobility (2021)
Following 2020, many people were ready to turn a cheek to their latest obsession of nightly news broadcasts that clung to the lingering terrors of society — not entirely, but they certainly didn’t want...
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’68 – Give One Take One (2021)
“‘68 have both confounded and enraptured generations of hardcore types, alt-rock snobs and passionate fans on the fringes of both camps. Today, the duo are coming after your complacency. Turn it up,...
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The Writhing Squares – Chart for the Solution (2021)
With their 2019 album Out of the Ether, Philadelphian duo Writhing Squares combined the grainy punk intensity of Fun House-era Stooges with the interstellar atmospheres of Hawkwind for a sound that...
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Gnod – Easy To Build, Hard To Destroy (2021)
“We just wanted to jam really and see what happened” reasons Paddy Shine of Gnod fourteen years on from their inception in Salford, and no keener to court mystique now than he was then. “That led us...
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The Armed – Ultrapop (2021)
Attending one of The Armed’s shows has meant reckoning with a giant swamp man lugging a card table through the pit. The Detroit-based heavy music brigade got Tommy Wiseau for a music video; their...
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L7 – Wargasm: The Slash Years 1992-1997 (2021)
From a purely artistic perspective, it’s actually worked in L7‘s favor that they’ve been more or less written out of the grunge story. They haven’t literally been written out, mind you — author Mark...
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Fucked Up – Year of the Horse (2021)
During their 20-plus years as a band, Fucked Up have never shied away from taking chances and stepping outside of whatever box critics and fans have tried to put them in. Their evolution over the years...
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Spiritual Mafia – Alfresco (2021)
Spiritual Mafia’s songs churn and drone, submerging block-simple lyrics in flattened Australian English with sludgy masses of guitar sound. The band made up of punk rockers from the unfortunately named...
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