Album Reviews

Portland doom-metal duo Fox Medicine craft a very unique and eclectic sound. Combining the harsh, distorted riffs of sludge metal with the bubblegum-sweet vocals that BABYMETAL have made famous creates combination. Their newest album, Procédures Mystiques creates the strange and terrific soundtrack to a pastel apocalypse. The album opens with …

A ghostly harmony comes sliding out of the silence in the title track of Sarah Lee Langford’s Two Hearted Rounder as though it were rising from the ashes of a long-forgotten American songbook. Spackled in twang and saturated with self-aware lyrics from Ms. Langford, “Two Hearted Rounder” sets the tone for the …

Jeremy Rice’s latest release Jeremy Rice and the Legendary Fist of Takinawa opens with the pensive mid-tempo march of “Johnny Rogers”. It’s an excellent opening curtain for the release highlighting the textured manner of Rice’s compositional talents and his nasal yet expressive vocals. There’s no other track on the album that’s …

“I ain’t tryin’ to start a class war” pleads Josef McManus, the mastermind behind White Owl Red, in the new single “Working Class Heroes,” the latest release from his critically acclaimed solo project. White Owl Red gets back to the basics of red, white and blue melodies adorned with smart, …

Some people refer to alternative rock as the last great revolution in the rock genre but we are far away from its birth in the late 80’s-early 90’s. Despite being two decades plus on from those halcyon days, young musicians of every ilk are still picking up guitars and turning …

“Coming Home” is a previously unreleased Veterans Day tribute from international rock duo, Follow No One. Many rock and metal fans know that Follow No One’s Rich Hall possesses one of the most impressive vocal ranges of recent memory. What is not widely known is that Rich is a two-tour …

The beats that adorn every stitch of audio we find in the Toronto Tabla Ensemble’s “Dream Symposium” are exotic to no end, but their most endearing qualities come from their sensuous arrangement and not from the worldly stylization of their tone. Right out of the gate, we’re hypnotized by the …

A vivacious acoustic guitar springs the first few chords of Caroline Blind’s “God Damn the Sun” to life with an opulent melodicism that will become all the more powerful as we press on in this excellent cover of the Swans song of the same name. Blind begins to sing, and …

The Sweet Kill have been setting 2019 on fire with their one of a kind beats and sensationally sharp electronic pop melodies, but in the shocking and seductive new video for their single “Night Terror Creeper,” they issue what is perhaps their most haunting work of art yet. Brilliantly directed …

  Colors fusing together just as quickly as they spread apart into fine lines of light-drenched vitality. They mirror the beat of a distant percussive element, but at the same time they create a mood and an energy all their own. We are at once transported to another reality while …

The Cold Stares’ new album Ways is a varied and smoldering thirteen song collection jumping out of the speakers. Chris Tapp and Brian Mullins are a decade in to their time together under this banner and still sound every bit as invigorated with this new collection despite the miles and previous releases …

Flat River Band are releasing “Go Tell It On The Mountain” to radio. Songs from “Christmas Time” appeared in a 2018 movie with Duane Allen (Oak Ridge Boys). “Christmas Time’ is destined to be an American Christmas classic…this is everything Christmas should be all about: down-home simplicity, family, faith, and …