Heavy Breathing’s new album Airtight makes sitting still a challenge.
Drop Electric’s sophomore effort Waking Up to the Fire trades the dramatic, instrumental post-rock soundscapes from Finding Color in the Ashes for glitchier electronic tracks.
Deathfix’s self-titled debut album has all of the components to create a solid psychedelic funk rock blend. It doesn’t always work.
Many rock songs cover familiar territory: the angst of growing up, the ups and downs of personal relationships, the fear of death — the painful or blissful human experiences. Yet, rarely are those art-imitating-life works framed in the original manner that Southern Problems has done with their debut album. Bassist Andy Bowen had written a short story about Newt Gingrich going to space and settling on the moon and the songs on Space is singer/guitarist Dan Schwartz’s interpretation of this story.
Night and the City, the first full-length release from former tour diarists, Silo Halo, is a heavy offering with gothic overtones and nods to new wave and shoegaze.
It’s hard being a band from the District in a post-Fugazi world, but the trio from Imperial China manage to take two steps forward on their full-length debut, How We Connect, while still making the occasional nod to the band that helped influence their blistering post-punk sound.
Kingsley Flood has been playing shows with their newer sound for many months, and finally their recordings reflect this stylistic shift, with the release of their new EP Colder Still.
A review of the debut album by the house music group House of Soul.
Two years ago, Deleted Scenes released a diverse, irresistible and fun debut with Birdseed Shirt. Now the Brooklyn/D.C.-based quartet’s latest offering Young People’s Church of the Air finds the group expanding on its debut, while enduring a few growing pains along the way.
While we appreciated Title Tracks‘ debut last year, it lacked the immediacy vital to fueling its anthemic power-pop. Their follow-up, In Blank, more than compensates with bounce to spare.
