A different tier of garage rock When they formed in 2006, The Coathangers could, as the story goes, barely play their instruments. Eight years later, though they may know how to play a bit better, they have lost none of their initial shoddy magnetism. These are garage...
In their nearly decade and a half long career, the thing Liars have been most associated with is their willingness to wildly change musical style from one release to the next, while always and astonishingly sounding exactly like themselves. Their discography ranges...
Justin Vernon taught him well. It is impossible to not think of Bon Iver when you hear the name S Carey. But in his first full length solo LP, Sean Carey steps out of Justin Vernon’s enormous shadow and creates an intricate, imaginative, and painfully beautiful...
Pop overload. If Tokyo Police Club incorporated elements with any rock influence prior to their most recent release, they have since been diminished. Forcefield is a pop album through and through. The group is excessively energetic, with simplistic guitar and...
Creative indie that weaves in some noise rock. With an album named “Not Art” and tracks like “Phil Collins” and ÛWhy Hip Hop Sucks In 13,” Big Scary's newest LP might seem cheeky on the surface, but at a closer look, “Not Art” is a creative work with...
Softly psychedelic One distinctive feature of the second album from David Novick, Ty Segall's buddy and kinda label mate (GOD? is an imprint of Drag City, and Novick played drums on the Sleeper track “The KeepersÛ) is the number of instrumental tracks (three on a...
Proto-punk-garage-rock-hyphen-sound Chicago based Porno Mags has an incredibly cohesive sound for a band formed less than a year ago, probably gained from their strict definition of the proto-punk genre. Porno Mags follows the recipe rather well- late 60s meets...
Afro-electro-disco-funk This London-based octet presents a danceable blend of electronic sounds, African polyrhthms and dashes of funk and disco. Frontwoman Eno Williams pulls it all together with soulful vocals in the Ibibio language of southern Nigeria. The sparse,...
Relevant rhymes over lavish world-inspired beats Chimurenga Rennaissance is technically a side project of Shabazz Palace's Baba Maraire as well as Hussein Kalon, but this offshoot definitely holds its own musical merit. Plain and simple: There is a lot going on in...
Daughter but way better. Sub Pop has redeemed itself with this UK beauty. Lyla Foy has the voice we expect and crave from the London indie scene, soft, strong, unique, sophisticated. But she doesn’t cop out and record a catchy heartbreak album with an accent....