Music
Review: letlive. – The Blackest Beautiful
Starting on a great note with the awful production quality and muddy vocals on “Banshee (Ghost Fame),” right away this is a painful album to struggle through. … read more
Review: Lord Dying – Summon The Faithless
Lord Dying, a Portland quartet featuring former stalwarts of the SLC metal scene, remind us why we first fell for metal. … read more
Review: La Machine – Phases and Repetition
I can’t help but imagine these tracks backing a David Lynch film—something along the lines of a black Cadillac racing through the desert night pursued by creepy-looking pale corpses in dark suits. … read more
Review: Koltum – Funeral of Flesh
There’s nothing like a healthy dose of hate, and Koltum give that hate tenfold with Funeral of Flesh. … read more
Review: Jimmy Eat World – Damage
Even softer than the already soft Invented, Damage continues the downward spiral into maturity and monotony. … read more
Review: Japanther – Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart
Japanther are one of those long-running Brooklyn duos who are typically heralded by music snobs for their heavyhandedness in lo-fi synth ostinatos and inability to stay rooted in one particular stylistic element for a whole album’s length. … read more
Review: Immolation – Kingdom of Conspiracy
New York’s consistently underrated Immolation don’t let up on the uneasy and unrelenting death metal with their ninth studio album, Kingdom of Conspiracy. … read more
Review: Honeyslide – Drippin/Deep Architecture
This double A-side bucks most retro-brain nu-gaze trends by not trying too hard to ape MBV, and just sort of arrives there nonchalantly. … read more
Review: Gris – À l’Âme Enflammée, l’Äme Constellée…
Depressive suicidal black metal is hardly a genre one would associate with innovation and variety, yet Gris continue to defy expectations on À l’Âme Enflammée, l’Äme Constellée… … read more
Review: The Fall – Re-Mit
If there’s a curmudgeonly rotten bastard shouting at everybody to get off his lawn, Mark E. Smith is next door, shouting at him to just quiet down already—because he’s doing it wrong. … read more