It ended up being manageable, but my oh my, September 2026 was a treat.

Honor Killed The Samurai is yet another piece of Ka ’s cryptic mosaic, an album that cemented his style and caught the ...

Disco, bedroom pop, and indie collide in an irresistible way on Tokyo Tea Room‘s second full-length.

Throughout the past seven or so years that I’ve written for this site, the amount of musical discoveries I’ve made either through premieres, reviews, or recommendations from the other writers, has ...

Ch’ahom delivers a rich conceptual meditation on death and humanity’s attempts to process it on the furious metallic assault of Anthropic Rites of Sublimation. Life’s one certainty, above all, is that ...

It’s hard not to love Krallice‘s output over the years. Since 2008, the New York quartet have come into their own, playing an experimental style of extreme metal owing as much to luminaries like ...

It’s hard to parse how influential Streetcleaner was back in the pre-90s, but Godflesh‘s industrial hellscape (along with fellow noise-makers Ministry) seemed to be foreshadowing the ugly demise of ...

In music, weirdness for weird’s sake usually comes off as indulgent and/or pretentious. I’m all in favor of experimentation, but it should serve the purpose of getting to the heart of something, ...

The result is an album that is equal parts distressing and inspiring, a rallying call to everyone with a basic sense of empathy to wake the fuck up and fight against the brainwashing of young men ...

‘Angst,’ as a term, has been co-opted by emo and written off as the needless whining of teenagers everywhere. At its core, the word refers to the intersection between apprehension, anger, and anxiety, ...

The first few notes of any album probably matter more than any other single run throughout the tracklist. That may be a bit obvious, but it’s been on my mind considering the opening track of Brighton ...