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DITZ – The Great Regression (2022)
Brighton’s Ditz make angry music in a world where there’s a lot to be mad about. Since forming in 2016, the quintet have armed themselves with pummeling drums and serrated guitar riffs against a world...
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Dama Scout – gen wo lai (come with me) (2022)
Performed willingly or not, cultural assimilation is a nerve-wracking high-wire act, particularly from the vantage point of a child. Memorizing social scripts designed to erase you for the slightest...
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Yo La Tengo – Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent...
Originally released in 2005, “Prisoners of Love” collects Yo La Tengo’s finest moments from their first 16 years of recording – including fan faves like the first single ‘Autumn Sweater’, ‘Sugarcube’...
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Pere Ubu – Nuke the Whales 2006-2014 (2022)
Nuke the Whales, the fifth in Pere Ubu’s box set reissues series remains true to the form so far established by the preceding four. Enigmatic, provocative-sounding title in a nice white box adorned...
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Editrix – Editrix II: Editrix Goes to Hell (2022)
The first sounds emitted by Wendy Eisenberg’s guitar on Editrix’s second album are screeching arcs of noise. These parabolas of dissonance ricochet for over a minute before devolving into scattered...
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The Gun Club – The Las Vegas Story [Deluxe Edition] (2022)
…containing a digitally remastered version of the original 11-track album plus bonus disc with 10 live tracks recorded at Scorgie’s in Rochester, New York on August 8, 1984. The tragedy of the Gun...
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Paul Leary – The History of Dogs, Revisited (2022)
Butthole Surfers’ Paul Leary released his debut solo album, The History of Dogs, in 1991 on Rough Trade. It’s a gonzo blenderization of punk, psych, glam, industrial, folk, and whatever else was in...
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Motherhood – Winded (2022)
Fredericton’s Motherhood have delivered some of the most unique releases in the area’s music scene for the last decade. Due to their habit of smashing their own mould to reinvent themselves with each...
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Petrol Girls – Baby (2022)
Many artists shy away from being too overt in their messaging, but Petrol Girls have never been one of those bands. The London punks exist to be essential, with a clear mission statement and their...
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black midi – Hellfire (2022)
black midi’s new album Hellfire is an absolute bundle of agitated and twisted songs. Hellfire builds on the melodic and harmonic elements of Cavalcade, while expanding the brutality and intensity of...
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Shit and Shine – Phase Corrected (2022)
The latest jerk in Shit and Shine’s, uh, eccentric aesthetic trajectory is pretty accurately charted by the geographic markers dotted over their last two LPs. If 2020’s Malibu Liquor Store was a trip...
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VA – Break It Up! New York Art, Rock, Poetry and Noise 1956-2022 (2022)
1. Richard Hell and the Voidoids – Blank Generation 2. Glenn Branca – Lesson No 1 3. Alan Vega – Nothing Left 4. Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith – Eternity 5. Moondog – All Is Loneliness 6....
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Primus – Conspiranoid EP (2022)
On this three-track EP, prog heroes Primus tackle the culture of misinformation that bubbled up into the socio-political landscape and mainstream discourse in the years following the release of 2017’s...
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Boris – Heavy Rocks (2022)
When Japan’s Boris unleashed the first volume of Heavy Rocks (Heavy Rocks [2002]), it provided a stripped-down, blown-out, riff-centric answer to 2000’s Flood, a wildly experimental four-part suite...
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Oneida – Success (2022)
Sometimes even the longest journey ends close to where you started. Throughout the teens, Oneida pushed further and further into abstract, atmospheric sounds, recording long haunting compositions that...
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The March Violets – Big Soul Kiss: BBC Recordings 1982-1986 (2022)
The March Violets came out of Leeds in the early 80’s, initially as label-mates of Sisters of Mercy. Releasing six singles, they were a constant presence at the heights of the UK indie charts, hitting...
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Forget Cassettes – Salt (2006, Remastered 2022)
Every year, countless people from different parts of the United States move to Nashville with one goal in mind: to have a career in country music. They don’t necessarily sing, write songs or play an...
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Pixies – Live in Brixton (2022)
When the Pixies reunited for a string of shows in 2004, the entire music world went up in a collective shout of “Shut up and take my money!” Any cynicism about legendary bands hitting the road once...
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The Smithereens – The Lost Album (2022)
It’s not surprising that New Jersey’s veteran rock and roll outfit The Smithereens hasn’t released new material since 2011. After all, when a band loses its primary songwriter/vocalist and frontman, as...
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Alice in Chains – Dirt (1992, Remastered 2022)
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, release a remastered 30th anniversary edition of Alice In Chains’ landmark album, Dirt. Originally released...
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