8 ushing boundaries of creativity and rising again seems to be the only motto for every single sonic creation of Empe…
Tag: Best New Albums
John Carpenter – Lost Themes II
8 iven Carpenter’s iconic status, he could easily spend his remaining days on basketball and video games and everyone…
Parquet Courts – Human Performance
9 aw, dramatic, ambitious, intense, complex, emotional, claustrophobic and yet melodically heavy. Recorded over the c…
Frankie Cosmos – Next Thing
8 ell, it’s quite easy to feel touched and totally drunk in love for Frankie Cosmos new album, Next Thing. Exquisite,…
Tombs – All Empires Fall EP
8 ombs, the band led by the charismatic Mike Hill, have shown, for nine years, a level of consistency that can’t poss…
Mamiffer – The World Unseen
9 or those of you who’ve lived in a cave for the last ten years (actually this is for you), Mamiffer is the highly re…
School Of Seven Bells – SVIIB
8 ith maturity and confidence, School of Seven Bells drive home their commitment to music with SVIIB. Catchy to the c…
Black Mountain – IV
8 fter 2010’s album Wilderness Heart, Vancouver outfit Black Mountain are back with their fourth album, simply titled…
Death Index – Death Index
9 arking back sonically to the days of The Birthday Party, Death Index are a cacophonous art-noise band who have crea…
Mothers – When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired
8 Too Small For Eyes”, the song that opens Mothers’ debut album is somewhat representative of the nature of the entir…
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – A Man Alive
8 hao & The Get Down Stay Down, the San Francisco-based band fronted by singer and songwriter Thao Nguyen,…
Bossk – Audio Noir
8 tmospheric post-everything, is perhaps the best way to describe Bossk sound. Not sticking to any kind of genres, th…
Anthrax – For All Kings
9 fter eight years of inactivity, Worship Music saw Anthrax’s dormant beast body reawaken back in 2011 as the band so…
The Thermals – We Disappear
8 ong live the The Thermals! That might be the overall feeling about one of the most beloved indie rock bands of the …
Simmer – Paper Prisms
8 n their debut full-length, Cheshire trio Simmer just sound big. All elements of their first two EPs Your Tonal Mess…