A Kiss for the Whole WorldAlbum by Enter ShikariReleased 21 April 2023Post-Hardcore / TrancecoreLabel – SORating – 5/10 A reminder of Enter Shikari’s versatility, flawed by inattentive songwriting. – I have to give Enter Shikari credit; as far back as debut album Take to the Skies, the Saint Albans band hasn’t simply juggled musical genre, […]
Singles Collection 2022Compilation by Lil Ugly ManeReleased 13 March 2023Alternative Rock / Slacker RockLabel – Fashionable DeathRating – 8/10 A series of headshots that display Lil Ugly Mane’s Neapolitan work ethic. – Lil Ugly Mane’s Singles Collection is just that, a collection of singles – and some bonus tracks – that the multifarious curve-baller released […]
The Price of ProgressAlbum by The Hold SteadyReleased 31 March 2023Indie RockLabel – Thirty TigersRating – 6/10 The Hold Steady go steady. – Grand Junction – opener from The Price of Progress – is an interesting oddment in The Hold Steady’s canon. Brandishing the album’s context, moods of hope and survival are embroidered not only […]
So Much (for) StardustAlbum by Fall Out BoyReleased 24 March 2023Pop RockProduced by Neal AvronRating – 6/10 Brought to you by nostalgia. – Growing up with a number of friends reliant on the emo scene of the mid-to-late 2000s (I mean, it still exists, just not quite so much in popular music), I’m very familiar […]
10,000 gecsAlbum by 100 gecsReleased 17 March 2023Alternative / HyperpopLabel – Dog Show / AtlanticRating – 8/10 100 gecs ruin music. – 100 gecs – comprised of Dylan Brady and Laura Les – have been credited with spearheading the “hyperpop” genre, an animated subgenre of electronic, digicore-esque music, sticky, uncontrollable, and religiously uncultured to the […]
Desire PathwayAlbum by Screaming FemalesReleased 17 February 2023Indie Punk / Alternative RockLabel – Don GiovanniRating – 7.5/10 – The sound of thunder has always roared through Screaming Females’ music, whether due to the New Brunswick trio’s customary, sledging quakes of garage punk, or wails and wobbles of frontwoman Marissa Paternoster’s voice. They kill ‘em with […]
After the MagicAlbum by ParannoulReleased 28 January 2023Shoegaze / Dream PopLabel – TopshelfRating – 8/10 Parannoul’s latest dream state contains more terrains than ever. – Little is known about Korean musician Parannoul, other than the perennial acknowledgment of his music – creamily dense shoegaze produced both realistically and synthetically – containing multiple energies; moon-peering solemn, […]
Nearing the bottom of a long list of social faux pas, Robert Pollard uses the bridge section – or one of the bridge sections – of Cousin Jackie to scat along with a tenuous rock rhythm, womping and humming like an uncool uncle. Why does this feel so commonplace on recent Guided By Voices records? […]
Late DevelopersAlbum by Belle and SebastianReleased 13 January 2023Indie PopLabel – MatadorRating – 6/10 A diverse cast of characters. – I’m not clued-up on the entirety of Belle and Sebastian’s discography, so I’m not sure if the toned-down, gutless hunt for mainstream acceptance of I Don’t Know What You See In Me should be considered […]
Heavily influenced by Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons concertos, Weezer released an EP on each equinox and solstice of 2022. The now-thirty-year-old rock band has even gone so far as to interpolate individual movements of The Four Seasons on each edition of SZNZ, one of the few aspects that actually relates to seasonal adjectivisation, though with […]
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