From first listen, there’s a sense that My Life In Subtitles is Carpool’s swing-for-the-fences record. These songs are dense in the best way possible, with layers that never become too overlapped, bleeding into each at the right moments and pulling back to highlight an idea… Read More »Album Review: Carpool – ‘My Life In Subtitles’
If you read my monthly “Global Pop Round-Up” feature, you’ll know how much I like dance music. It’s rare to find a straight-up club track in K-pop these days, as idol group configurations usually require an arrangement that mixes genres and tempos. The last all-out… Read More »Song Review: Hello Gloom – Mamacita
After a few years of singles and EPs, hardcore five-piece Spaced signed to the legendary Revelation Records. Today, they release This Is All We Get, an eight-track record that places the band on the level of some of Rev’s most iconic groups. This is an album… Read More »Artist Interview: Spaced
UK lads Mastiff are no strangers to depression, anger and grief. Those emotions have been present on each release in the band’s very bleak catalog and come to a head on Deprecipice, the band’s fourth album. Though it’s Mastiff’s first release since the end of pandemic lockdowns, they… Read More »Full Album Stream: Mastiff – “Deprecipice”
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions present Destiny, the debut album from Memphis, Tennessee’s ultraviolent sludge metal sadists Mudshow. Destiny is a concept record telling the story of Matt Tremont’s explosive anHorrord blood-soaked feuds with Atsushi Onita and Rickey Shane Page and is heavily indebted to A… Read More »Album Premiere: Mudshow – Destiny