Year: 2014
![Local Review: Various Artists – Lake Mary Presents: Visit](/uploads/306/7788-visit-crop-396x288.jpg)
Local Review: Various Artists – Lake Mary Presents: Visit
Creating a cohesive compilation can prove difficult when working with a variety of artists and visions. Yet, Lake Mary Presents: Visit seems to be unanimously organized to evoke juxtaposed feelings of serenity in a frigid environment. … read more
![Local Review: VISTAAS – Sunkhronos](/uploads/307/7910-vistaas-crop-396x288.jpg)
Local Review: VISTAAS – Sunkhronos
VISTAAS Sunkhronos Self-Released Street: 01.14 VISTAAS = Pierre Schaeffer + Oneohtrix Point Never Sunkhronos is a sample-heavy, cut-up work. This record has the feel of a found cassette in sections—the rare type where ferric tape hiss actually adds to the musicality. I would refer to it as musique concrète more readily than, say, a beat
![Local Review: Visitors – Blueshift](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/visitors-blueshift-album-artwork.jpg)
Local Review: Visitors – Blueshift
Visitors Blueshift Self-Released Street: 06.20 Visitors = Deftones + Rush Rarely does an EP sound so much like a full-fledged album. Musical offerings of such satisfying integrity do not hatch, fully formed, by sheer happenstance. Blueshift combines fist-sized chunks of aboriginal talent with months of coffee-addicted, all-night hunkering sessions, to yield prog metal that feels
![Local Review: Various Artists – Sounds of Sodium](/uploads/308/8074-sounds-crop-396x288.jpg)
Local Review: Various Artists – Sounds of Sodium
I have to admit, my local punk rock experiences have been tainted. Unfortunately, my friends and I went to many bad, local pop punk shows in the ‘90s and missed out on the good stuff. Thankfully, Sounds of Sodium, a local punk/rock/hardcore compilation, made it my way. … read more
![Local Review: WE – WE-E.T.’s VOL. II](/uploads/311/8465-we-crop-396x396.jpg)
Local Review: WE – WE-E.T.’s VOL. II
WE = Joey Bada$$ + 1995 Raekwon … read more
![Local Review: Twilight Transmissions – Shadowland](/uploads/302/7104-shadowland-crop-396x288.jpg)
Local Review: Twilight Transmissions – Shadowland
Beyond the visual aesthetics, this album fares quite well. It’s a well-textured series of electronic soundscapes and beats that would not sound out of place accompanying a modern horror film, game, or a walk through a haunted hospital.
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![Local Review: Untytled – Winter](/uploads/303/7242-untytled-crop-396x288.jpg)
Local Review: Untytled – Winter
I’ve got my wine, I’ve got my Untytled album and now all I need is a fat spliff. In all seriousness though, this album is superb to chill out to (or can easily be used to wallow in a cesspool of seasonal self-deprecation, I quickly found). … read more
![Local Review: Tom Bennett – The Man Who Shook the Trail of the Devil’s Hounds](/uploads/303/7241-tomalbumart-crop-396x288.jpg)
Local Review: Tom Bennett – The Man Who Shook the...
From start to finish, the most powerful word I’ve found to describe Devil’s Hounds is “honest.” The beginning of this album focuses specifically on one man’s experience of, possibly, his favorite place on earth: Salt Lake City. … read more
![Local Review: Tiger Fang – Endangered](/uploads/308/8070-tiger%20fang-crop-396x288.jpg)
Local Review: Tiger Fang – Endangered
This album is what it sounds like to pound a 12-pack of Pabst by yourself, jump around on your bed shredding on air guitar until you get sick and puke into a pile of week-old laundry, and knock over your foot-tall bong because you were too busy headbanging to pay attention to anything but the music. … read more
![Local Review: Tupelo Moan – Cocaine and Chicken Grease](/uploads/309/8161-tupelo%20moan-crop-396x288.jpg)
Local Review: Tupelo Moan – Cocaine and Chicken Grease
Fuck yeah! No, seriously, I said, “Fuck yeah,” every 20 seconds the first time through this album. I tried to find both of the items listed in the album title to get the full effect. … read more