Archive for 'Album Reviews'
Album Review: Evolution Machine – Hopeful Monster
Review by Chris Gardner If metal is not heavy, abrasive, technical or groovy, what could it be? Well, Perth’s EVOLUTION MACHINE have tried their darndest to answer that question, and in so doing have proven symphonic...
Album Review: Wintercoats – Heartful
Review by Jessica Tucker The third EP by WINTERCOATS (aka James Wallace) titled Heartful is pure instrumental eloquence. The layering of violin and haunting sounds leaves one with a feeling of complete harmony. However, this soothing...
Album Review: Brothers Grim And The Blue Murders – Roll It In
Review by Cameron Treacy Roll It In is the second EP from country-blues-rock heavyweights THE BROTHERS GRIM AND THE BLUE MURDERS. Recorded over three days, TBGATBM have come up with a blistering and brutal release, but...
Album Review: From The Dunes – Gravity
Review by Naomi Faye Gravity is the debut EP from four piece Perth band FROM THE DUNES. Produced by Matt Gio (Voltaire Twins), Gravity is straight up and down Australian rock, filled with powerful 90s-inspired vocals and...
Album Review: Dead Owls – Small Talk
Review by Naomi Faye Small Talk doesn’t sound like a debut EP. Dead Owls’ first release is sophisticated, fluid and full of contradictions: comfortable yet challenging, self-conscious but confident, fragile but strong. Jumping between these extremes,...
Album Review: Place of Indigo – Illuminate
Review by Naomi Faye There is nothing like a band that executes a particular sound perfectly, creating nostalgia for the past without sounding like a cheap rip off. PLACE OF INDIGO achieves such feat, their second EP Illuminate proving that...
Album Review: The Growl ‘What Would Christ Do?’
Review by Christine Savage From the onset, THE GROWL‘s new album’s opening track “Eleven” sets the pace for things to come, with a dirty jungle blues sound derived from the driving percussion and heavy droning bass. Add to that the sultry vocals and...
Album Review: Pissed Jeans ‘Honeys’
Review by Benjamin Arnold In a musical scene being dominated by dreamy eyed psych-pop revivalists, it’s a welcome change to hear a band more concerned with puncturing your ear drums, than mollycoddling them. ‘Honeys’ is Pennsylvanian...
Album Review: Solange ‘True’
Review by Kosta Lucas. Is it really that cynical to think that Matthew Knowles is actually trying to seize control of the music industry through his two daughters? After helming the career of one of the...
Album Review: My Bloody Valentine ‘m b v’
Review by Benjamin Arnold Almost as soon as primary songwriter Kevin Shields announced that the follow up to 1991 masterpiece ‘Loveless’ had been completed, it was released. On the 2nd of February, every music nerd on...
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