STRFKR has always been a constantly evolving entity, growing over the years from rambunctious beginnings into the manicured electro-pop perfection they exhibited on their last studio album, 2016’s pristine Being No One, Going Nowhere. New album Future Past Life breaks new ground, dialing back some of the high-gloss production they’re known for to craft songs that are stripped down,…
If your brain has a shortlist of bands that instantly evoke New Wave, Suburban Lawns deserve a slot right next to the likes of Devo, Talking Heads and the B-52’s. After putting out two singles on their own Suburban Industrial imprint, the Lawns signed to I.R.S. Records and released their debut LP in 1981. While…
In Carrie and Lowell, Sufjan Stevens is a child again or, more specifically, the child character in the family of man drama that often but not always centers on the story of love given, or love forsaken, but isn t that the same thing to the poet? That the love Stevens sings about having left…
It s been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture (impossible and absurd). But what about singing about movies? Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine have paired up for a collaborative project that does just that. A Beginner’s Mind is their debut album that contains 14 songs (loosely) based on (mostly) popular…
Suki Waterhouse’s music sounds like a collage of her inspirations, experiences, and emotions stitched together by honeyed vocal delivery, bright-eyed melodies, and evocative storytelling. It doubles as a mirror image of her life as a consummate creative, artist, actress, model, and mother, yet it also breaks the glass to unveil raw truth. She leans on…
Tracklisting:1. Y.S.A.B.2. Dirty Work3. 10 Toes Down4. No Heart5. Six6. Think About It7. Contempt of Cop8. Defraud Please note that our copies were dinged up in the mail when sent by the distributor.
If the setting is right, magic will happen. And so, this record came into being. Sunburned Hand of the Man, three decades into their one of a kind run, still possess the ability to amaze, stupefy and astound – even themselves. Recorded over a week at Big Blue, Adam Langellotti’s (Kurt Vile & The Violators)…
Sunny Day Real Estate s debut album, Diary, virtually defined emo in the 90s, laying much of the groundwork (along with Weezer) for the genre s end-of-decade indie prominence. Although emo existed (both as a term and as a style) prior to Diary, it hadn t yet risen out of the deepest hardcore punk underground, save for…
In 1997, Sub Pop approached Sunny Day’s members for help in compiling a rarities album. Because there were so few usable tracks, band founders Jeremy Enigk and Dan Hoerner agreed to get together and write some new material to augment the archival songs, but they wound up crafting an entire new album in a matter…
This is the 2009 reissue of Sunny Day Real Estate’s 1995 sophomore album, commonly, and largely unofficially, referred to as either LP2 or The Pink Album. We’ve been going with LP2 for a while now and plan to stick with it. This 2009 edition has been re-mastered and includes the bonus tracks “Spade and Parade” and “Bucket of Chicken,” as…
La Mano Cornuda, further (un)refined the band’s sound into an absolute blast of an album that Eric Davidson (New Bomb Turks) hailed as the band’s “best all-around record” in his garage-punk history We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001.
The Supersuckers have been blazing their own debris-strewn path since forming in 1988 in Tucson, Arizona, winning over legions of fans with their special blend of hard rock, punk, and country. Their 1992 debut, Smoke of Hell, is a rip-roaring blur, equal parts Ramones, Motorhead, and middle-finger throwing Johnny Cash.
“This is all slabs of sound, rhythm and screaming testifying. What more do you need? In a way, it was a reaction against Punk (and just about any other music you can think of), and the conservative notion that 3 chords were somehow necessary. I used to deny it vehemently at the time, but No Wave (I…
Swans’ live album Public Castration Is a Good Idea, originally released as a limited edition “official” bootleg in 1986, is now available on vinyl for the first time since that original collectible release. Public Castration… includes live recordings from UK shows at the ICA, London, The Garage, Nottingham and the University of London Union in support of the…
Three of the tracks were released as singles, all of them now impossible to obtain. ‘Corporate Indie Band’ was a limited edition cassette, ‘I Sold My Soul on eBay’ was a one-off lathe cut that got auctioned on eBay (with a £400 winning bid), ‘Indies of the World’ was a 7” inch single that briefly…
This is the second ripper full-length from SWEAT, a band composed of members of Graf Orlock, Dangers, Ghostlimb, and Dogteeth. Pissed, snarky, melodic and articulate, this thing goes. Love Child continues along the path started with SWEAT 7 (Apr 2020), Gotta Give It Up LP (Feb 2022) and the recently released split 7 with Negative…