Mar 6, 2023 Music Goodbye Divine by Creux Lies (Review) Darkwave outfit Creux Lies aren’t afraid to wear their influences or emotions on their sleeves, which is a very good thing.
Aug 6, 2022 Music L.S.U.’s This Is the Healing Gets Remastered, Reissued (Review) The Chrindie classic was originally released back in 1991 by Blonde Vinyl Records.
Mar 27, 2020 Music Outnumbered by The Foreign Resort (Review) The Danish trio’s latest album is a perfectly bleak blend of razor-sharp post-punk and chilly synth-pop.
Mar 1, 2020 Music Lifesavers Underground’s Shaded Pain Brought Goth-y Gloom to Christian Music (Review) The band’s 1987 magnum opus is a dark, haunting album that still captivates after more than three decades.
Feb 17, 2020 Music Topographies’ Difference & Repetition Perfectly Invokes the Specter of Early ’80s Post-Punk (Review) If you’re a fan of ethereal guitars, icy synths, Cure-ish basslines, and haunting vocals, then this is your new favorite EP.
Nov 16, 2017 Music Longing for Home by Starsabout (Review) For fans of thoughtful, atmospheric indie-rock, Starsabout’s debut full-length is the real deal.
Sep 9, 2016 Music Posh Lost’s Wonderfully Gloomy Debut Is More Than Just Musical Nostalgia (Review) Yes, this Minnesota quintet sounds a LOT like Joy Division but their self-assured music ultimately transcends such easy comparisons.
Jun 27, 2015 Music ‘Pale Horses’ Is mewithoutYou’s Most Amibitious — and Troubling — Album to Date (Review) Without a doubt, the most ambitious mewithoutYou album to date, by any standard, but also the most troubling.
Sep 1, 2008 Music A Wingless King by Writ On Water (Review) It should come as no shock that A Wingless King, the group’s newest full-length, sounds somewhat like a musical artifact unstuck in time.
Nov 5, 2007 Music Without Number by Plumerai (Review) Plumerai are clearly heading in the right direction with their sound.
Oct 19, 2006 Music Brother, Sister by mewithoutYou (Review) Brother, Sister is a perfect encapsulation of everything that’s both good and bad about mewithoutYou’s music.
Aug 16, 2006 Music Res Cogitans EP by Plumerai (Review) Though not without its flaws, this EP is proof that Plumerai have things figured pretty well out.
Dec 14, 2005 Music Songs For The Advent by Sojourn (Review) I was completely unaware that I needed a good Christmas album this year and yet this album has filled that niche quite nicely.
Apr 9, 2005 Music Silent Alarm by Bloc Party (Review) It’ll be interesting to see how this disc holds up in a month, 6 months, a year.
Apr 4, 2005 Music 81:03 by Antarctica (Review) One of those albums that reminds you of all of your favorite bands and yet still sounds unique.
Apr 3, 2005 Music 23:03 by Antarctica (Review) The incredible thing about Antarctica is that the musical formula, which could be so ‘80s, steers clear of the silly clichés it could easily fall into.
Mar 1, 2005 Music Bloc Party EP by Bloc Party (Review) There’s a rawness and unsteadiness to Bloc Party’s sound which is both their saving grace and greatest shortcoming.
Aug 29, 2004 Music A Brief History of the Twentieth Century by Gang Of Four (Review) This compilation captures the panic and urgency in Gang of Four’s stripped down, funked up post-punk.
Jul 16, 2004 Music The Ugly Organ by Cursive (Review) Part of me is thrilled to hear an album this brilliantly bitter.
Jan 20, 2004 Music The Blue EP by Spy Glass Blue (Review) Overall, the EP feels like a transitional work to span the gap until a release that really displays the band’s talents.