Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 12, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors. As our staff post reviews of these albums, links will appear below the art work so that you can read about the release, see how we scored it, and more.
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—Featured Release—
Equilibrium: Armageddon
Genre: Black Metal // Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 9, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors. As our staff post reviews of these albums, links will appear below the art work so that you can read about the release, see how we scored it, and more.
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-Featured Release: The Dear Hunter-
The Dear Hunter: Act V
Genre: Progressive Rock // Label: Equal Vision Records
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Ayahausca: Yin
Genre: Heavy Rock // Label: Independent
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Bastille: Wild World
Genre: Pop Rock // Label: Virgin Records
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Black Funeral: Ankou and the Death Fire
Genre: Black Metal // Label: Masterpiece Distribution
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Chase The Day: Tabula Rasa
Genre: Alternative Rock // Label: Chase the Day
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clipping.: Splendor & Misery
Genre: Industrial/Hip-Hop // Label: Sub Pop Records
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 10, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors. As our staff post reviews of these albums, links will appear below the art work so that you can read about the release, see how we scored it, and more.
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Astrakhan: Reward in Purpose
Genre: Doom/Sludge Metal // Label: War on Music
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Bait: Sunburst [EP]
Genre: Blackened Hardcore // Label: WOOAAARGH/Sell Your Soul Records
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 3, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors. As our staff post reviews of these albums, links will appear below the art work so that you can read about the release, see how we scored it, and more.
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Attalla: Attalla
Genre: Hardcore // Label: Independent
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Beartooth: Aggressive
Genre: Metalcore/Hardcore // Label: Red Bull Records
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Cat’s Eyes: Treasure House
Genre: Indie/Dream-Pop // Label: Cat’s Eyes
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Cauchemar: Chapelle Ardente
Genre: Heavy/Doom Metal // Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions
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The Claypool Lennon Delirium: Monolith of Phobos
Genre: Psychedelic Rock // Label: Prawn Song Records & Chimera Music
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 27, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors. As our staff post reviews of these albums, links will appear below the art work so that you can read about the release, see how we scored it, and more.
Seven years. That’s how long it has been since Brand New has released a full length LP, and diehard fans are starting to lose patience with the band’s constant game of cat and mouse, teasing us with a single here or there before completely falling off the face of the Earth for another 365 days. It’s been a tiring wait, but it appears as if our collective patience is finally going to be rewarded. According to a Procrastinate! Music Traitors information report, the band is confirmed for a 2016 physical release of some kind, although it does not specify whether the format will be an LP or EP. Speaking from experience with the band, though, they’ve never been very big on extended plays – with the last release of this type coming via 2003’s The Holiday. If I were a betting man, I’d say we can expect to be listening to Brand New’s fifth full-length album before the year draws to an end, and that’s an exciting prospect considering the mythical status that the long awaited LP has garnered.
2015 saw the release of “Mene”, a punchy pop-rock number that harkened back to the days of Your Favorite Weapon and, even more so, Deja Entendu. The directional switch up seemed to catch more than a few of the group’s disciples off guard, which is altogether both surprising and not really surprising at all. The band’s most recent albums, The Devil…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 20, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors. As our staff post reviews of these albums, links will appear below the art work so that you can read about the release, see how we scored it, and more.
Ariana Grande seems to be heating up just in time for summer. Everything she’s done leading up to the May 20th release of her third full-length LP, Dangerous Woman, sounds sleeker, bolder, and sexier than anything she has released to this point. It feels like a natural evolution for the pop starlet who has enjoyed vast success early in her career without ever quite breaking into the stratosphere of contemporary pop, or at least not to the ridiculously celebrated extent that icons such as Taylor Swift or Adele have pulled off. To a point, Ariana has thus far demonstrated what it means to define the pop status quo, bringing forth radiowave-riding ear candy that is enjoyable for a hot minute before fading away just as quickly as it arrived. Consistency has also been a point of derision, as we’ve yet to see an album that explores Grande’s vocal arsenal and artistic palette in full depth. It has always consisted of hit singles padded by lighter ballads and the occasional guest rapper thrown in for good measure – once again, not all that dissimilar from what is going on anywhere else in the modern pop scene. But is all of that about to change? From the sound of it, Ariana has as firm of a grip as ever on her musical direction, and she’s about to totally dominate the summer of 2016. Bolstered by “Dangerous Woman”, “Be Alright”, and now “Into You”,…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 13, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors. As our staff post reviews of these albums, links will appear below the art work so that you can read about the release, see how we scored it, and more.
“Burn The Witch” feels like a cut right from the center of Radiohead’s prime – it’s eerie, compelling, and beautiful.
It’s not just any band that can drop a single and immediately earn a shout out from Time Magazine. Radiohead is one of the largest cultural phenomena in modern music. They’re as much generational icons as they are musicians, and much in the same way that music used to be able to shape the world (think civil rights and war protests during the 1960s / early 1970s), this is our very own paranoid bunch of 2000s cynics. That’s why when they release new material to the masses, it’s like a world leader making an important speech. Everyone just sort of listens.
It’s clear that Radiohead has a lot to say on “Burn The Witch.” Frontman Thom Yorke has never been one to state things plainly, as conspiracy theories and prophetic visions have become staples of the band’s lyrical content (If you haven’t researched the parallels between Kid A and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, then I highly recommend a quick google search for a very intriguing – if far fetched – read.) Yorke’s unyielding disillusionment with political/economic greed, consumerist societies, and the exploitation of technology have shown through in spades over the years, and there’s been nary an album to forego some type of political or cultural subtext worth investigating. In the midst of a particularly…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 6, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Alaric – End Of Mirrors (Neurot Recordings)
Aloha – Little Windows Cut Right Through (Polyvinyl Record Co)
ANOHNI – Hopelessness (Secretly Canadian)
Astronauts – End Codes (Lo Recordings)
Belvedere – The Revenge of The Fifth (Belvedere Music)
Beverly – The Blue Swell (Kanine Records)
CardiaC – Sangrar Hasta Lograrlo (Tenacity Music)
Chevalrex – Futurisme (Vietnam)
Chris Cohen – As If Apart (Captured Tracks)
Cole Swindell – You Should Be Here (Warner Music Nashville LLC)
Cyndi Lauper – Detour (Mutzarella Inc)
Death Grips – Bottomless Pit (Harvest Records)
Dead Register – Fiber (AVR Records)
Degtras – Hominidae Resonance (Wood and Stone Productions)
Electronic Frequency – Human Abyss (Electronic Frequency)
Fear Like Us – Succour (Poison City Records)
Ghold – PYR (Ritual Productions)
Glorior Belli – Sundown (The Flock That Welcomes) (Agonia Records)
The Goo Goo Dolls – Boxes (Warner Bros. Records Inc)
Homeboy Sandman – Kindness for Weakness (Stones Throw Records)
The Hypothesis – Origin (Inverse Records)
Imperium – Titanomachy (Ultimate Massacre Productions)
James Blake – The Colour In Anything (Polydor Ltd)
JMSN – It Is. (White Room Records)
Joana Serrat – Cross the Verge (Loose Music) Julianna Barwick – Will (Dead Oceans) — Atari Kaytranada – 99.9% (XL Recordings) — Will Robinson
Keith Urban – Ripcord (Hit Red Records)
Little Scream – Cult Following…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 29, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Abhomine – Larvae Offal Swine (Hells Headbangers)
A Dead Forest Index – In All That Drifts from Summit Down (Sargent House)
Angarthal – Uranus And Gaia (Steve Angarthal)
Brian Eno – The Ship (Warp)
Britta Phillips – Luck or Magic (Double Feature Records)
The Boxer Rebellion – Ocean by Ocean (Amplify Music)
Darkestrah – Turan (Osmose Productions)
Doomsquad – Total Time (Bella Union)
Drake – Views (Young Money)
dvsn – Sept 5th (Elektra)
Fallujah – Dreamless (Nuclear Blast)
Germ – Escape (Prophecy Productions)
Gersey – What You Kill (Gersey) Haken – Affinity (Century Media Records Ltd) –Thompson D. Gerhart
Imarhan – Imarhan (City Slang)
The Jayhawks – Paging Mr. Proust (Sham)
John Doe – The Westerner (Cool Rock Records)
Kawir – Father Sun Mother Moon (Iron Bonehead Productions)
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity (Heavenly)
Konono No. 1 – Konono No.1 Meets Batida (Crammed Discs)
Kyle Craft – Dolls Of Highland (Sub Pop)
Long Distance Calling – Trips (InsideOut Music)
Luca Brasi – If This Is All We’re Going to Be (Poison City Records)
Man Made – TV Broke My Brain (Man Made)
Melt Yourself Down – Last Evenings on Earth (The Leaf Label)
Mindshift – Horizon (Eclipse Records)
Pity Sex – White Hot Moon (Run for Cover Records)
Plants and Animals – Waltzed in…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 22, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Aborted – Retrogore (Century Media Records Ltd)
Andy Stott – Too Many Voices (Modern Love)
A$AP Ferg – Always Strive And Prosper (RCA Records)
Beast Wars – The Death Of All Things (Destroy)
Blue October – Home (Up/Down-Brando Records)
BoneHawk – Albino Rhino (Ripple Music)
Carlos Niño – Flutes, Echoes, It’s All Happening! (Leaving Records)
Doomsday Ceremony – Black Heart (Cogumelo Records)
Dust Bowl Jokies – Dust Bowl Jokies (Rodeostar Records)
Elephant Tree – Elephant Tree (Magnetic Eye Records)
Elessar – Reflections (Elessar UK)
False Gods – Wasteland (Independent)
Te Fall of Troy – OK (Independent)
Ferium – Behind the Black Eyes (Independent)
Framix – Lucky Monkeys (Frakamix Production)
Fruition – Labor Of Love (Randm Records)
Good Tiger – A Head Full of Moonlight (Metal Blade Records)
Greys – Outer Heaven (Carpark)
Guided by Voices – Please Be Honest (GBV Inc)
Ill Wicker – Untamed (The Sign Records)
Knifeworld – Bottled Out of Eden (Century Media Records Ltd)
Legendary Pink Dots – Pages of Aquarius (Metropolis Records)
The Loom – Here In the Deadlights (Crossbill Records)
Matthew and the Atlas – Temple (Communion Group Ltd)
Mean Jeans – Tight New Dimension (Fat Wreck Chords)
Media Solution – The Prelude (Pavement Entertainment Inc)
Messenger – Threnodies (InsideOut Music)
Mortichnia – Heir To Scoria And Ash (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Nicolas Godin –…
Whereas King Crimson seems to corner the market when it comes to being the pioneers of prog, there was actually a band that King Crimson’s producer, Tony Clark, worked with years before In The Court Of The Crimson King was even conceived. The name of that band? Well, The Moody Blues of course! And it was for no other album than their crowning achievement Days Of Future Passed. The album is famous among casual classic rock fans for the beautiful, eerie hit “Nights In White Satin” – but any prog enthusiast who has investigated the album further knows that it is brilliant from beginning to end. Fully orchestrated and dream-like, it’s almost impossible to select one song worth highlighting.
Although I wholeheartedly recommend giving the entire record a dedicated listen, today’s Throwback Thursday installment will focus on one snippet of what the gorgeous experience entails. “The Morning”, is a single track that exudes the raw beauty of the orchestra fueling Days Of Future Passed‘s creativity. Gliding in on waves of awe-inspiring strings, subtle piano, and magisterial horns, it progresses to a rhythmic and undeniably catchy verse before culminating in a forlorn, wise-sounding chorus: “time seems to stand quite still…in a child’s world it always will.” The way the song weaves between pop sensibility and orchestral ambition is a thing of beauty, and it manages to be all at once familiar, progressive, and aurally stunning.…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 15, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Alkerdeel – Lede (Consouling Sounds)
Ashley Shadow –Ashley Shadow (felte)
Amber Rubarth – Scribbled Folk Symphonies (Chesky Records)
Ash Meteors – Fragment I (Ash Meteors)
Bear Hands – You’ll Pay For This (Spensive Sounds)
Blaqk Audio – Material (Blaqk Audio)
Cate Le Bon – Crab Day (Drag City)
The Coathangers – Nosebleed Weekend (Suicide Squeeze Records)
Crematory – Monument (Steamhammer)
The Decoys – In Our Blood (Unsigned)
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros – PersonA (Community Music Group LLC)
Game Over – Crimes Against Reality (Scarlet Records)
Goatess – Purgatory Under New Management (Svart Records)
Graham Nash – This Path Tonight (Blue Castle Records)
Gypsy Chief Goliath – Citizens Of Nowhere (Pitch Black Records)
Hemotoxin – Biological Enslavement (Unspeakable Axe Records)
Hestina – Blossom Talk (Autumn Tone Records)
Holy Dragons – Civilizator (Pitch Black Records)
Howls of Ebb – Cursus Impasse (Voidhanger Records)
Izegrim – The Ferryman’s End (Listenable Records)
J Dilla – The Diary (Pay Jay Productions, Inc)
John Carpenter – Lost Themes II (Sacred Bones Records)
Kevin Morby – Singing Saw (Dead Oceans)
Lita Ford – Time Capsule (Steamhammer)
Murder Made God – Enslaved (Comatose Music)
Nightmen – Fifteen Minutes Of Pain (Lovely Records)
Nucleus – Sentient (Unspeakable Axe Records)
Omophagia – In The Name Of Chaos (Season of Mist)
Otep – Generation Doom (Napalm Records)
Pathways –…
Seven years. That’s how long it has been since Brand New has released a full length LP, and diehard fans are starting to lose patience with the band’s constant game of cat and mouse, teasing us with a single here or there before completely falling off the face of the Earth for another 365 days. It’s been a tiring wait, but it appears as if our collective patience is finally going to be rewarded. According to a 
