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Wolf Eyes – Difficult Messages (2023)
By the early 2020s, Wolf Eyes consisted of the core duo of Nate Young and John Olson, in addition to numerous occasional collaborators. Difficult Messages isn’t a proper Wolf Eyes album, but a...
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Brainiac – The Predator Nominate EP (2022)
First Ohio, then the world. Brainiac laughed at their own ambition with the tongue-in-cheek cover of their 1995 Internationale EP, which read “Dayton London Paris Tokyo Berlin Moscow.” Still, the band...
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Tropical Fuck Storm – Submersive Behaviour EP (2023)
Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Tropical Fuck Storm channel the brooding and menacing sound of Nick Cave as well as leader Gareth Liddiard’s previous band the Drones. Submersive Behaviour is our...
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Thrice – The Artist in the Ambulance – Revisited (2023)
As we work our way through the early 2020s, nearly every album that defined millennials’ music taste is celebrating its 20th anniversary. For a large swath of the post-hardcore and emo kids of that...
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black midi – Live Fire (2022)
black midi don’t jam as much as they used to. The London art-rock band assembled its 2019 debut in part by editing extended improvisations, but with 2021’s Cavalcade, they began composing from the top...
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Screaming Females – Desire Pathway (2023)
Screaming Females’ eighth studio album starts with a sound that you don’t hear too often on Screamales records: a synth. That keyboard, played by Jarrett Dougherty, starts as a simple, bloopy, hypnotic...
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Pile – All Fiction (2023)
Over the course of their first seven albums, Pile have developed the particular brand of dissonant yet melodic rock that fans have come to expect; music that’s equal parts aggression and beauty. Having...
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Model/Actriz – Dogsbody (2023)
There’s something distinctly Cronenbergian about Dogsbody, the seething debut album from the excellent New York group Model/Actriz. Its 40 minutes house bleeding jaws, splintered bodies, thorns that...
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The Telescopes – Experimental Health (2023)
Experimental Health is the 14th album from The Telescopes and their third release on Weisskalt. The Telescopes are an all-embracing concern which began in 1987 – the only constant, being sole composer...
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Dinosaur Jr. – Puke + Cry: The Sire Years 1990-1997 (2023)
When the original trio lineup of Dinosaur Jr. imploded in 1989, guitarist/vocalist J Mascis barely broke his stride when it came to continuing the progress the groundbreaking alt-rock group had been...
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Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (2023)
Mudhoney will never entirely escape its grunge past, nor should it. The band did much to define that early 1990s amalgam of punk irreverence and lo-fi fuzz metal roar. However, for the last couple of...
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The Shits – You’re a Mess (2023)
Leeds Stoogian noiseniks The Shits released their debut album Punishment in early 2020, a time when such a gruelling, discordant axe of ire was incredibly resonant. More recently, the loud and proud,...
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Shizuka – Heavenly Persona (1994, Remastered 2023)
The Black Editions label continues to do the lord’s work. In recent years, they’ve been digging through the archives of legendary Japanese psych label P.S.F., giving new life to some truly great and...
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Hüsker Dü – Tonite Longhorn (2023)
Hüsker Dü released Tonite Longhorn, a previously -unreleased double-disc set of rare live recordings from the legendary band’s embryonic on-stage beginnings. Drawn from the historical Hüsker Dü...
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Pearl Jam – Give Way (2023)
Eddie Vedder once said that drummer Jack Irons saved Pearl Jam from wilting under the pressure of grunge-era superstardom, and you could also make a strong case that the band might not have ever...
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Tunic – Wrong Dream (2023)
Winnipeg art punks Tunic cut some of the genre’s most heart-pounding and apocalyptic soundscapes; the screams of vocalist David Schellenberg sound less of anger and more of desperation. Despite the...
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SQÜRL – Silver Haze (2023)
SQÜRL was formed by Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan in 2009 to score Jarmusch’s movie The Limits of Control. Over a decade later and with numerous EPs and film scores under their belt, SQÜRL are set to...
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Therapy? – Hard Cold Fire (2023)
The permanence of Therapy? is impossible to overlook. With an impressive career that spans more than three decades, the group’s body of work stands out, as the anthemic noise rockers continue to focus...
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Wolf Eyes – Dreams in Splattered Lines (2023)
On their 2023 compilation release Difficult Messages, Michigan noise institution Wolf Eyes worked with various like-minded peers to produce a series of relatively short pieces that explored fractured...
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JAAW – Supercluster (2023)
…The motley crew of underground UK rock stalwarts that make up the JAAW initialism are, on thunderous bass, Jason Stoll of Mugstar and Sex Swing fame, Therapy’s Andy Cairns on grizzled guitars, the...
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