Sacred Bones Records
![Review: Marissa Nadler, Stephen Brodsky – Droneflower](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sba002-droneflower-300_1024x1024.jpg)
Review: Marissa Nadler, Stephen Brodsky – Droneflower
The songs on Droneflower play out like unpredictable pendulum swings. Some songs slither out soft-like and acoustic headed toward a metal grind that never comes, while others sound like raking gravel that Nadler barely tries to soften out. … read more
![Review: The Men – Hated: 2008-2011](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/359-Ed-NMR-The-Men-Hated.jpg)
Review: The Men – Hated: 2008-2011
The Men = The Buzzcocks + Minor Threat + Parquet Courts … read more
![Review: Pharmakon – Contact](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Pharmakon-Contact.jpg)
Review: Pharmakon – Contact
Pharmakon = Whitehouse + Masonna + Wormrot … read more
![Review: Psychic Ills – Inner Journey Out](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/330-ED-NMR-Psychic-Ills.jpg)
Review: Psychic Ills – Inner Journey Out
Psychic Ills = Golden Animals + Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
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![Review: Marching Church – Coming Down](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/SBR152-marchingchurch-comingdown-1440-1024x1024.jpg)
Review: Marching Church – Coming Down
Marching Church = Ornette Coleman + Nick Cave + Codeine
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![Review: Part 1 – Funeral Parade](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Part-1-Funeral-Parade.jpg)
Review: Part 1 – Funeral Parade
Part 1 = Rudimentary Peni + Crass + Specimen … read more
![Review: Institute – Catharsis](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Institute-Catharsis.jpg)
Review: Institute – Catharsis
Institute Catharsis Sacred Bones Street: 06.09 Institute = The Dead Boys + Gang of Four A thin-toned, catchy guitar riff begins “Perpetual Ebb,” the first track on Catharsis, and it seems to set the BPM for the whole record. Like most good albums swaying toward the punk genre, the speed enables perpetual pogoing. The vocals,
![Review: Jenny Hval – Apocalypse, girl](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Jenny-Hval-Apocalypse-Girl.jpg)
Review: Jenny Hval – Apocalypse, girl
Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl Sacred Bones Street: 06.09 Jenny Hval = Laurie Anderson + Kate Bush + FKA Twigs Apocalypse, girl is intimate, redolent of how an experimental documentary art film might translate to sound. Jenny Hval pervades her reality with musings about her state of being in the world—how she wants to live and
![Review: Cheena – Self-Titled](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cheena-self-titled.webp)
Review: Cheena – Self-Titled
Cheena = The Dead Boys + The Jam + The Arkacis … read more