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LEGION OF ANDROMEDA – IRON SCORN
Everyone out there should be listening to Tokyo’s Legion Of Andromeda. Following up their demo from 2013, Legion Of Andromeda have just…
DUNGEN – ALLAS SAK
Allas Sak, released on Mexican Summer, is the latest album from Swedish psych pop masters Dungen. The first album since the band’s…
SUPPRESSION — RATS IN THE CONTROL ROOM
Jason Hodges has been in fine form lately, developing his noise project Brown Piss and returning with the best Suppression material in…
mommy — EP
Over the last several years, Toxic State Records has done its part to define the NYC punk scene, putting out records from…
PATOIS COUNSELORS — PATOIS COUNSELORS
Patois Counselors are a North Carolina post-punk outfit featuring members of a ton of bands from Charlotte. While the primary influence here…
CCTV — CCTV
CCTV are a punk band from Indiana featuring members of Coneheads, and sound essentially the same, with the key difference — and…
Weyes Blood — Cardamon Times
Natalie Mering has quietly built up a body of work under her Weyes Blood moniker. The former Jackie-O Motherfucker member follows up…
SUN CHILDREN SUN — S/T
Sun Children Sun is. What exactly Sun Children Sun is tends to be a little harder to point down. Whatever it is,…
Protomartyr — The Agent Intellect
The Agent Intellect, out on Hardly Art, is the third album from Detroit post-punk outfit Protomartyr. The album is the band’s strongest…
The Sediment Club — Psychosymplastic
The NYC-based trio The Sediment Club has put on one of the wildest live shows for several years now, and while their…
Wolf Eyes — Enemy Ladder b/w Dull Murder Two
I debated writing “trip metal” two hundred times over instead of an actual write-up here, but opted against it. Hailing from Ann…
