Album Reviews

Dyr Faser Create A Calculated Cacophony On Cathartic Phantom Electric

It’s albums like the one Boston’s Dyr Faser’s recently put out that back our regular rule that starting any complete “Year End” list is a moot point until almost the very end and regarding Phantom Electric, we pretty much guarantee that you’re not likely to find any other artist in [...]

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Stabbing Westward Return Electrified With Gargantuan Electro Comeback Chasing Ghosts

If something’s going to eventually end up on our year end list then it needs a proper review barring the tiny blurbs we add, right? It’s especially important to have a review when going through our Spotify “Wrapped” playlist for the year and many a song on said album lie [...]

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Corlyx Extend Spooky Season Forever With New Wave Post-Punk Epic Blood In The Disco

Like many out there, music was a real comfort during the first year of the pandemic. There were many an album that brought just some pure joy to the RNRF offices but, being forever a Goth/Industrial kid at heart, none delivered more than Corlyx and their beauty called Together Apart [...]

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We Demand Parachutes Dole Out All The Alt Pop-Punk You’ll Need To Finish 2022 Right On Outside The Null Field

I dig blink 182, okay? And I’m not ashamed to admit it. When the tour announcement/album news hit recently I was genuinely excited and probably would’ve gotten tickets to next year’s Garden show had the tix not been at insane prices (Thanks, Ticketmaster!) I mentioned this to my best friend [...]

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He Is Legend Enter The Endless Hallway, Come Out The Other Side With A Non-Stop Banger

Pleasant surprises are when He Is Legend not so subtly tease a new release and then the gotdamn thing actually materializes within the same year those aforementioned teases were made. The band that refuses to die, He Is Legend, is back with their seventh full-length rekkid called Endless Hallway and [...]

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Jason Priest Is Found And Unveils Latest Synth Scorcher With For Your Consideration

Waaaaaay back in June 2021 (So not that long ago… it just seems that way!) we took a dive into the world of Jason Priest (AKA Antoni Maiovvi) and were pleasantly surprised by the stunning Synthwave emanating from within Jason Priest Is Missing. Following up something that we deemed to [...]

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