Saturday, March 29, 2025

Album Review: Sacred Monster - Worship the Weird

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Worship the Weird  is the debut album* from Chicago doom metal band, Sacred Monster (from 2019, a very popular year for rehashing stalwart ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Album Review: Dött ljus - Bottna

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Bottna is the Slowcraft Records debut of Stockholm electronic duo Johan Kisro and Petter Lindhagen, known to us as Dött ljus (if you know an...

Interview: Pete Min of Colorfield Records

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I've been a fan of Pete's work with artists since the start of this blog. His work with Colorfield Records is completely in line wit...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Album Review: WOW - Come La Notte

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Shadowy cinematic psychedelic pop out of Italy, that could have been written for a David Lynch film with ambitions for mainstream crossover ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Interview: ESP Mayhem

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Deploying a sonic barrage of culture-jamming ballistics from the savanna of perdition that is Neo-Melbourne, ESP Mayhem is the EVP of the gh...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Album Review: Pinky Lemon - Pinky Hell

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Admitting this will likely make me sound completely unhinged, but whenever I order a drink at a restaurant or a kiosk, I have an irrational ...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Album Review: Ails - The Unraveling

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Ails was the second phase of vocalist Laurie Shanaman and guitarist Christy Cather’s life work of reshaping the American metal scene. The du...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Album Review: Michael Cera Palin - We Could Be Brave

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I'd be very surprised to learn that any of the guys from Atlanta's Michael Cera Pallin could see another country from their house- e...
Friday, March 7, 2025

Album Review: Earth Heart - Homesick

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Digging into the back of my crates to find the unrequited relics of a previous eon of musical obsession. When my lungs look like two bowls o...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Album Review: Chancha Via Circuito & El Búho - Tenalach

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Chancha Via Circuito is an Argentinian folk artist and hip-hop producer who I would have considered the tip of the cumbia music revival spea...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Album Review: Shady Lady and the Malefactor - A Nickname

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With the world perpetually feeling like it's about to lurch off its axis and go peeling off into the starry abyss, keeping yourself out ...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Album Review: Isiliel - 月虹創聖記

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It almost seems like a lifetime since Myrkur released her debut self-titled on Relapse- 10 years might as well be a century the way things c...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

Album Review: Meatwound - Culero

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Meatwound... what a fucking name. It could either be a butcher's term of art or a tactless way of describing a condition that will requi...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Album Review: The Atlas Moth - Coma Noir

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Named for the enormous but short-lived Southeast Asian Lepidoptera, Chicago’s sludgy post-metal pioneers spread their powerful wings and ta...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Interview: Career Day

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Had the pleasure of connecting with Desmond of NYC emo outfit Career Day to talk about their 2024 EP  I'll Always Be This , and just lif...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Album Review: Cocojoey - Cocojoey's World

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I am thoroughly convinced that Chicago-based producer Cocojoey's LP Cocojoey's World is the product of a stand user. What else coul...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Album Review: Samara Lubelski - Flickers at the Station

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I'm trying to get back in the swing of writing about albums consistently in 2025, so I'm going to take it easy on myself and look ba...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

Album Review: JER - BOTHERED / UNBOTHERED

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I'm hesitant to share my appreciation for ska on this blog. This is partly because I don't listen to as much of it as I used to, but...
Monday, February 10, 2025

Interview: Deludium Skies

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Now I'm not an expert in geology or ecologist, but I'm fairly certain that there are no deserts in Austria. I get my confidence in t...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Album Review: Excuse Me Who Are You? - Double Bind

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Excuse me, who are you ? I hear it a lot. For example, when I helpfully attempt to add additional orders of french fries to strangers' o...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Interview : Molly O'Brien of I Enjoy Music + 2024 Recap

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Everybody seems set to move on from 2024 already, but I'm not sure why (especially when the future is looking bleaker by the day). A lo...