Infant Island LP. 2018 (Infant Island) Aside: I will avoid using the word “screamo” throughout this piece because, truthfully, it does no justice to the subject matter. The miserable realization that I should give up my search for anything closely approximating the feeling I got from hardcore punk bands of the 90's and early 2000's … Continue reading An Interview with Infant Island of Virginia
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An Interview with Pile’s Rick Maguire
Green and Gray, released today I’ve become a bit disenchanted with indie rock over the past couple of years. No need to go into my reasons but suffice to say that everything is just becoming a bit uninteresting and clonish. That’s why I find myself covering more and more hardcore and post-punk artists. Let’s face … Continue reading An Interview with Pile’s Rick Maguire
FONTAINES D.C.-Dogrel
“Dublin in the rain is mine/A pregnant city with a Catholic mind.” That’s a good couplet for Holy Week, if you ask me. That’s also the first line of the new album Dogrel by the Irish post-punk band FONTAINES D.C. It’s a great line, even taken out of context, but when you hear it on … Continue reading FONTAINES D.C.-Dogrel
Mesarthim – Ghost Condensate
Wednesday around 5, I'm dragging ass at the office because I've pretty much gotten everything done work wise that I could, so I decided to check my personal email. Lo and behold, Australian experimental black metal band Mesarthim dropped a new album that morning, entitled Ghost Condensate. I haven't been keeping up with them the … Continue reading Mesarthim – Ghost Condensate
A Word about Soft Kill and their New Single, “Saint”
If you scrape together bits and pieces of Soft Kill’s history you will most likely find a sordid story of adversity, addiction, nomad-ism, fatherhood and, ultimately, some sort of redemption. I wouldn’t even begin to know where to start here (so I won’t try), But the sum of these elements is some of the most … Continue reading A Word about Soft Kill and their New Single, “Saint”
PUP – Morbid Stuff
This is my third review for this prestigious publication, and I swear I will eventually review an album about which I'm not super enthusiastic. Today's not that day, however, as we're talking about the new record by PUP, Morbid Stuff. Morbid Stuff is the first record they've put out since 2016, and I missed them … Continue reading PUP – Morbid Stuff
Corrections-Projection (A Meditation on Modern Post-Punk)
I had a very interesting conversation with Sam Nicholas of London's “post-post-punk" band, Corrections, who just released his new, state-of-the-art LP, “Projection", on France's Icy Cold Records. I’m going to request that you now switch over to whatever it is you stream music on and find it. Soak it in while you read this. I … Continue reading Corrections-Projection (A Meditation on Modern Post-Punk)
Andrew Bird – My Finest Work Yet
I've been told to listen to Andrew Bird countless times. I've heard a few things here and there and never disliked him, but never got fully invested. So when perusing the new releases on Spotify to see if there was anything I would want to try instead of the usual, I clicked on what I … Continue reading Andrew Bird – My Finest Work Yet
Greet Death-“Strange Days”(Single)
There’s this sludgy shoegaze outfit from Flint, Michigan called Greet Death. I can only assume the origins of their name are found in the Explosions in the Sky tune of the same name. I haven’t researched this, but it would be fitting, and I feel better believing it so…let me have that. In any case, … Continue reading Greet Death-“Strange Days”(Single)
