Clipping are masters of 2020 horror in new LP Noah Larsen November 1, 2020 Album Review, Reviews, Uncategorized Clipping’s new album Visions of Bodies Being Burned (2020) has one hell of a story to tell you. Released on the 23rd of October, the album serves as a sequel to last year’s LP There Existed an Addiction to...
Metal for Halloween! Tyler Harding October 29, 2020 Album Review, Reviews Halloween is celebrated through disparate traditions by cultures around the world. Globalization in the United States has turned the season into an amalgamation of customs from across the world, the simulacrum...
Revisiting Sufjan Stevens’ Age of Adz in the era of hyperpop Noah Larsen October 12, 2020 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Reviews, Uncategorized As I was scrolling through the #sufjanstevens tag on TikTok (as one naturally does), I clicked on a high-quality video in which user @boyjr.69 covers Sufjan Stevens' indie hit song “Mystery of Love” in the...
Kyle reminisces on his youth with latest album Amber Ellertson October 11, 2020 Album Review, Reviews, Uncategorized Rapper and singer Kyle, from Ventura, CA, recently dropped his fourth album, See You When I am Famous!!!!!!!!!!!! (2020). A mix of new and old styles, SYWIF is a collection of songs which both remind of us of ...
Lianne La Havas: self-titled, self-possessed Stanley Quiros September 27, 2020 Album Review, Reviews English singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas just released her self-titled album, and though her previous records were filled with soul and rock sensibility, this cohesive record which focuses on the cyclical na...
Top Metal EPs of 2020 (So Far) Tyler Harding July 24, 2020 Album Review, Reviews The metal underground has seen a massive revival in the digital age, and it can be daunting to parse through dozens of terrible one-man basement black metal groups to find a gem. I can attest to this, as the 1...
Hexenbrett’s Happy Haunting Tyler Harding May 30, 2020 Album Review, Reviews 1 Comment Horror is paradoxically uncool: the elements of horror are ubiquitous and mainstream, and yet the genre itself remains insular and weird, the torch passionately carried by modern directors like Robert Eggers a...
Unfinished Portrait: Tyler Leswing’s Complete Debut Stanley Quiros May 4, 2020 Album Review, Reviews Quarantine definitely has people with time on their hands. I have had a chance to not only catch up on some great albums I have been recommended, but also some of this year’s new releases. Normally I would l...
The Buttertones set loose into new territory with fifth album Jazzhound Natalie Gott May 2, 2020 Album Review, Reviews On April 10th, my love saga with The Buttertones made a sudden shift to feel like a brisk affair with an older man when they released their fifth album, Jazzhound. This album holds all of the integrity of thei...
What to make of Father of All… in 2020 Amber Ellertson March 31, 2020 Album Review, Reviews Green Day’s February release, Father of All Motherfuckers (2020), is a tongue-in-cheek middle finger to the record industry. With almost no song exceeding three minutes in length, Green Day did the bare mini...
Malokarpatan: Slovakian Witchery Tyler Harding March 30, 2020 Album Review, Reviews 1 Comment You find yourself in a cabin in a forgotten wood, and the grizzled wanderer across the fire tells stories about the dense, hushed forest outside your warm sanctuary. Through his bawdy, gruff guise, the strange...
Unwhat the world? Grimes strikes again on Miss Anthropocene Stanley Quiros March 21, 2020 Album Review, Reviews In 2015 Grimes, or Claire Boucher, proved to non-believers that she was more than just Garageband bangers and beats with Art Angels. Her fifth and “last Earth album,” Miss Anthropocene (2020), sees the now...
Vampire Weekend’s Father of the Bride depicts the beauty within chaos Brianna Luna March 17, 2020 Album Review, Reviews The six years of painful silence from indie-rock band Vampire Weekend came to its anticipated end with Father of the Bride (2019) serving as a generous comeback filled with brightness and electricity. With its...
Eden Ariel’s debut EP Altars is a New York City dreamscape Noah Larsen March 11, 2020 Album Review, Reviews Hailing from New York state by way of Manhattan, Eden Ariel lets her environment take up a character of its own in her lyricism on her new EP Altars (2020). Opening track “City Rain” is a love story about ...
Against All Logic, unhinged: 2017-2019 Everett Williams March 3, 2020 Album Review, Reviews It’s here. 2017-2019, the newest Nicolas Jaar project, under his alias Against All Logic, dropped on February 7th, 2020. For those unfamiliar, Nicolas Jaar is one of electronic music’s most fascinating fig...