This is one of those years where you’re writing your end of year summary every day. It’s a year which inundated all of us with so much music, and from so many angles and genres, that it almost begged to constantly be analyzed, made sense of, and conceptualized. I’ve written…
I’ve spilled many a digital word on describing just what Iapetus’ album from this year, The Body Cosmic, makes me feel so it was a no-brainer to reach out to Matthew and Jordan as our first guest list. At the end of the day, I love these lists because they…
I don’t think there’s music more suited for the winter months than atmospheric black metal. Each year, as the weather gets colder and the snow builds to less-than-comfortable levels, a nice spin through an Alcest, Panopticon, or Wolves in the Throne Room record gives my heart the appropriate amount of…
Sometimes, as a lover and critic of music, one has to admit that they’re wrong. Egregiously so, even. Thus is the case with my relationship with, and belief in, the music of Ken Sorceron’s Abigail Williams. I first heard their debut record almost a decade ago, and was in all…
2019 is a big year in more ways than one. For starters, it’s one year before the the big 2020, where our collective minds lose themselves (there’s a joke on one of the album titles in here) over a round number. Are you ready for “Best of The Decade” lists?…
My listening habits move in waves; I have periods where only the most blackened, crusted, and filthy tracks are what I crave and I shy away from the melodic or harmonious. Then, at other times, I can’t stand static, fuzz or noise and what I need are clean vocals, chromatic…
February; or, as I like to call it (I literally just invented this), “The Bastard Month.” It’s not just the weird length which makes this month hard to pin down; it’s no longer “The First Month of the Year,” but nor is it close to its half. It’s not Midwinter…
Yes, we’re doing this post for the second time. No, it’s not because we didn’t notice (it kinda is) and totally because Astronoid have just released a new album and it’s pretty different to their celebrated debut. Wait, that actually does make a lot of sense; Astronoid’s self-titled, sophomore release…
Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and unleash a seemingly endless stream of quality new music. But while some of our Editors and Contributors sit down gleefully each week to dive into this newly stocked treasure…
Ah, the fabled sophomore release! We won’t bore you by enumerating, once again, the challenges inherent in an artist’s second release. Suffice it to say that all of those challenges are only compounded when the debut was as successful as Astronoid’s Air was; it captured the imagination of an entire…
