Album Reviews

Luxury Skin Paint A Pretty Modern Alternative Picture Across Elegant I’ll Get You Out Of Here, Baby

We get way too overhyped when we kind of jump at something on a whim and it turns out to be epically amazing. For example, there was just something about “Hole In My Head” from Brooklyn’s Luxury Skin that really stuck with us long after we first came across it. [...]

Read MOre

BEDTIMEMAGIC Go Grand (But Still Keep It Fun) On New Aural Odyssey Lie Down With Dogs

We’ve been teasing this thing since the end of last year, got to hear it super early, teased it some more with our interview with BEDTIMEMAGIC’s resident player of Vocals, Bass, Guitars, Banjo, Synths, Piano, Drum Machine, Melodica, Harmonica and Slide Whistle (Yes, Slide Whistle) Nicholas Pentabona (Back in January! [...]

Read MOre

Combichrist Come Correct, Merge All Their Multiple Musical Personalities Into Massive Opus That Is The Venom In The Mouth Of God

We don’t pay Combichrist too much mind when new music is released because we’re never sure what it’s leading to. Is it a standalone? The prelude to a tour? A part of a new record? And that’s the limbo we found ourselves in when a roll out of singles began [...]

Read MOre

Hunter As A Horse Wonderfully Weave A Mix Of Electro, Post-Punk, Trip-Hop And More Across Debut LP Paradise Lost

It has been a very good year for the Electronic music scene. And we’re not going to do one of those posts rattling off all that that entails because the focus here is on Hunter As A Horse and debut LP Paradise Lost. Every time we heard a new single [...]

Read MOre

Tricky Returns With Supremely Solid, Serenely Sublime Different When It’s Silent

The moment we heard single “Because I Don’t Know”, we had a feeling that Tricky’s 15th (!!) long player might be something special. Then “Still See Me There” came and reeled us in a little more with “I’m Yours” ultimately solidifying that Different When It’s Silent was really going to [...]

Read MOre

The Amplifier Heads Ready The Rawk On Mega Musical Masterpiece Super 8

We’re not sure there’s going to be another record that captures the spirit of the RAWK as much as Super 8 from Boston’s The Amplifier Heads does this Summer. One listen through Super 8 and Cheap Trick comes to mind. As does The Boss. And early Bryan Adams as well. [...]

Read MOre