Gilla Band Embody Current Zeitgeist with a Noisy and Agitated LP
Gilla Band emerge as spokespersons for our age of solipsism, dissecting and lampooning these proclivities. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, we’re doomed.
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Plum Come Out Swinging with a Post-Punk Tour de Force
Plum are a hugely talented post-punk band and the songs on Bodies in Motion are tight, smart, and infectious. Turn the music up loud and dance like it’s 1980.
The Durutti Column Make a Graceful Return with ‘Renascent’
The Durutti Column’s Renascent is a superb snapshot of their late period, with sounds and textures creating gorgeous soundscapes.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Keep Reckoning with Death
Nearly 50 years into Nick Cave’s career, familiarity provides the last missing piece in the emotionally complex and mentally demanding puzzle that is a Bad Seeds show.
Cheekface Get a Little Funky and a Bit Angry on ‘Podium’
Cheekface’s oddball point of view is a big draw, but their willingness to turn their sardonicism toward current events is a good way for them to meet the moment.
Brånd’s ‘Tåg & Nåcht’ Offers Boundless Exploration
Brånd’s Tåg & Nåcht offers boundless exploration, touching on everything from post-punk and neofolk to electronica and krautrock with a black metal underpinning.
Gun Outfit Reach Higher Ground on ‘Process and Reality’
Gun Outfit’s Process and Reality imbues a cosmic existentialism in which celestial instrumentation coils and twists, like a serpentine trail in a canyon.
Telehealth Disrupt Dystopia with ‘Green World Image’
Telehealth create angular grooves and twitchy rhythms and look askance at our modern-day neoliberal nightmare as we doomscroll ourselves to oblivion.
Chicago’s Body Shop Will Make You Sweat and Think
Body Shop’s sound blends danger and wit and a reputation for confrontational live shows. The music drips with danger and sex, but isn’t just empty provocation.
And Also the Trees Dig Into Their Deeply-Rooted Art
And Also the Trees reflect upon the cache of artistic and natural world influences that give their preternatural rock deep shades of Euro-Blues and Moorland Goth-Pop.
Poison Ruïn Explore the Intersection of Punk and Post-Punk
Poison Ruïn have come closest to their original goal of embedding themselves in the lineage of early punk and post-punk. Hymns from the Hills is a powerful listen.
The Earliest Days of Talking Heads Are a Revelation
A new Talking Heads compilation acts like a scrapbook, looking at their early years as a trio before they exploded onto the New York scene and around the world.