8 track album

The third quarterly report of 2024 psych pop, art rock, psych prog, indie pop, proto-metal, epic doom metal, noise, sludge metal and more.

7 track album

Detroit post-punkers' haunted hotel concept album is one of their best.

12 track album

12 track album

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9 track album

A Poe-inspired triumphant return to heavy rock on their best sounding album yet

Potential fulfilled on TFATD's heaviest and most accessible album.

San Diego psych proggers woodshed seven years with analog synths for their third album.

Their thirteenth album revisits the fuzz for a late career highlight.

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Chicago doomgazers level up to legend tier with their sixth cosmic dreamscape. Cycles in the Infinite Dream is an appropriate title for the sixth album for a band that’s been a bit of a sleeper. Their...

Sydney band's third full length could be highlight of the summer.

Shoegaze, Slackers, and the Reinvention of Rock 1984-1994 I first came across Simon Reynolds when he published his first book, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock (1990), a kind of remixed compilation o...

14 track album

Unsatisfied by the aggregate mid-year lists? Maybe because they’re missing Elder, Spirit Adrift, Truckfighters, Liminal Sky and many more. I have a lot of reservations for mid-year lists. Personally, ...

Best final albums from bands and artists who are no longer with us, broke up, or haven't released anything for a decade.

Melbourne's original cowboy junkies nail their third consecutive winner while on the verge of collapse.

10 track album

The Cap'n concludes the musical chapter of his career with a beautifully autumnal piece of desert art rock.

Golden Void is one of a handful of bands that came out of nowhere and blew me away with a great, fully realized debut album full of brilliant songwriting that made my year-end top 13 in 2012. They had...

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6 track album

How in the damn hell did I miss this band? For the past year I have been harassing bands like Fellwoods, Dead Man and Elope to put out some new music, as I’ve had an itch for more albums that navigate...

Syd Arthur are a psych prog band from Canterbury, England. Given their name, one might assume the band partake in complicated, extended prog jams with inscrutable lyrics along the lines of perhaps Gon...

Feminist post-punk that sparked vicious blowback, and is still ahead of it's time.

Fugazi’s previous albums, Red Medicine (1995) and End Hits (1998) maintained a sort of holding pattern. While relatively experimental, they were also somewhat predictable. There were the dubby excursi...

30 years ago while the mainstream suffered a post-grunge hangover, creativity was bubbling over in Post-Rock, Trip Hop, Electronic, Stoner Metal, and Noise.

Nashville mimimalist abstract blues band at their most cohesive, introspective and powerful

Take a theraputic sound bath with the best album of the year so far.