If you’re in serious need of/can’t wait for Pelican’s next slab of awesomesauce that’s (as of now) due in 2025 then by all means, the upcoming new record from Glacier is for you. However, while the complex instrumental heaviness similarities might be your gateway into Glacier we’re pretty sure that [...]
We have no problem declaring that the only ukulele-driven artist that we’d ignore every open streaming tab and currently-in-the-process-of-editing drafts for is Boston’s own Travels With Brindle (And believe you me, you’d be surprised at the amount of ukulele-centric music we DO get). Being local is definitely a bonus but [...]
We’re big fans of fuzzy Rawk at the RNRF offices especially when done well and ESPECIALLY if it happens to be both (Done well + Fuzzy Rawk). Massachusetts’ DnA’s Evolution ticks off both those boxes on the regular and do it gloriously on their latest full-length, Curious of Nothing, which [...]
The comparisons to that band are gonna be inevitable so might as well just get them out of the way now, right? Elephant in the room: 2 of the 5 members of Vended happen to be the offspring of 2 of the 9 (Is it still 9???) members of a [...]
Look, to be clear, Amiensus’ Reclamation Pt.I which arrived in April was a stellar entry into an already dynamic catalog. That said, Reclamation Pt.II blows all of that away. Definitely our most favorite from the Minnesota collective, possibly their best to date, and most certainly their heaviest. In fact! We [...]
Damndest make our kind of music. The kind that’s Synth flavored, anthemic, driving, and just all around moving. It’s a kind of modern Shoegaze Post-Rawk in the vein of Tombstones in Their Eyes mixed with Bear In Heaven’s sparkling Electro tendencies and Telekinesis’ brand of Indie anthem-making. And we dig [...]
