(((O))) Category: AotY2012
Leftfield music has seen a bit of a turn around in fortunes over the recent years with the current strain of what some people call “math rock” even denting the charts. Battles and Foals spring to mind and now we can add another name to that list…Gallop …
‘Since their inception nearly fifteen years ago, they have noticeably developed an ever-increasing respect and knack for the art of songwriting. Unlike many, the band do not suffocate their own songs with a lumbering mass of atonal distortion, but inst …
‘BEAK> created their debut album out of 12 days of improvised sessions, with the resulting jams edited into song form. No overdubs. These recording methods were utilised again on >>, the only real difference being the bringing of the synthesizers to th …
‘I’ll sign off with the assertion that Channel Orange is a superbly forward-thinking piece of work that places Ocean lightyears ahead of his peers.’ – The405
‘The effect of this album varies between skin-tingling, glassy-eyed, light-hearted from ‘A Simple Answer’ or thoroughly haunted from ‘The Hunt’.’ – The405
‘the awesomeness and advancements of Koi seem more miraculous with the knowledge that it’s an album that might’ve never happened, and a sequel to an album that itself hurdled over adversity to enter the material world’ – Metal Sucks
‘leaves most of his contemporaries in the dust; his rapid-fire delivery, complex rhyme schemes, and savage charisma feel mercifully out of a place in a rap market dominated by Auto-Tuned nothings’ – Tinymixtapes
‘those looking for an entrancing, challenging, compelling and god-damn great-sounding clutch of tunes will celebrate and share liberally.’ – The Line Of Best Fit
‘Trephine is a concept album about a fantasy world a hospitalised man encounters after a psychological breakdown. Inspired tragically in part by the death of Guitarist/singer Scott Endres’s close friend, they have created a dark, psychedelic bruising a …
‘If you have any interest in underground music, you will be familiar with Melvins. That scene you love? Over the decades, the Melvins’ sweat, blood, and big hair paved the way for that to happen.’ – Beardrock
‘[their] most eclectic crop of songs to date and stands out as a great guitar-rock album in a year that’s seen its fair share of them already.’ – Tinymixtapes
I tend to rant a lot about genre classification (see: anything I’ve ever written) and how needless it is most of the time. Thus, when I saw that Sheffield’s inFictions classified themselves as ‘post-progressive’ I got a little worried about the content …
‘Unknown Rooms : A Collection of Acoustic Songs’ is Chelsea Wolfe’s third release and it’s a softer inspiring addition to her discography. Prior to ‘Unknown Rooms’, Wolfe was known for a blend of doom rock and gloomy folk that usually featured a full b …
Well they’ve done it again. MINIONTV’s third record in just over two years continues the quality of the others with their wonderful looping drums, powerful layers of guitar and synth, the prominent dancing bass lines, and that ability to get you out of …
