Monday, November 24, 2008
Transistor Transistor - Ruined Lives (2008)
Screamo / Rock / Hardcore / Noise
Transistor Transistor’s splatterpunk sonics crossbreed blasting, Refused-style guitar riffs with vocal hooks welded out of impure noise. End result? Completely mosh-worthy, albeit unsurprising screamo rock.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Loma Prieta - Last City (2008)
Screamo / Hardcore / Prog-Punk
San Francisco screamo act Loma Prieta rub elbows with prog, but it’s mostly overshadowed by standard overdoses of sub-grindcore screaming.
Friday, October 31, 2008
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia (2008)
Alternative Rock / Blues / Soul
The first full-length collaboration between Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan is a desperate hurricane of despair and debauchery befitting its artful cover. Just be prepared to take your dose of each singer separately, most of the time.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Rise Against - Appeal to Reason (2008)
Hardcore Punk / Punk Revival / Melodic Hardcore
Rise Against’s stripped-down, bare essentials, roots-of-punk simplicity accounts for most of their charm, but it’s also their undoing in places.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Audio Fiction - Audio Fiction (2008)
Retro Pop-Rock / ’80s Revival / Punk
Just in time for autumn, these ten summery tracks drip retro cool. Don’t worry, the really cool kind: Hendrixian octave guitar madness, double X chromosome swagger and Siouxsie peek-a-boos. Angelfish lovers rejoice.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Raein - Nati Da Altri Padri (2008)
Punk / Prog / Screamo / Experimental
Fans of heavy music with orchestral compositional technique will feel perfectly at home with this burst of spitfire prog-punk from Italian five-piece Raein.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Alesana - Where Myth Fades to Legend (2008)
This Is Usually The Part Where People Whine
- This Is Usually The Part Where People Scream
- Goodbye, Goodnight, For Good
- Seduction
- A Most Profound Quiet
- Red And Dying Evening
- Better Luck Next Time, Prince Charming
- The Uninvited Thirteenth
- Sweetheart, You Are Sadly Mistaken
- And They Call This Tragedy
- All Night Dance Parties In The Underground Palace
- Endings Without Stories
- As You Wish
- Obsessions Is Such An Ugly Word
Friday, May 30, 2008
From First to Last - From First to Last (2008)
Hallelujah, the whining is gone.
Monday, November 20, 2006
Fear Before the March of Flames - The Always Open Mouth (2006)
Fishing for hooks for always open ears
Absolute Future
Drowning The Old Hag
Mouth
Taking Cassandra to the End of the World Party
Ten Seconds In Los Angeles
The Waiting Makes Me Curious
High As A Horse
Dog Sized Bird
Complete and Utter Confusion…
…As a Result of Signals Being Crossed
My (Fucking) Deer Hunter
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Thursday, November 2, 2006
Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness (2006)
Siren song of the counter-counterculture.
Chamber The Cartridge
Injection
Ready To Fall
Bricks
Under The Knife
Prayer of the Refugee
Drones
The Approaching Curve
Worth Dying For
Behind Closed Doors
Roadside
The Good Left Undone
Survive
Up on top, it’s nothing but gold teeth, big cars and big butts; trolling in the underground, you meet a [...]
