Twin Atlantic: GLA | Supremely Scottish
Twin Atlantic's GLA may have its blemishes but it is irrefutably exciting and as aesthetically pleasing as the passionate city they hail from.
Album Reviews
Oozing Wound : Whatever Forever | Get High. Fuck. Destroy.
Oozing Wound's Whatever Forever is the gold standard of thrash-heavy noise rock that caters to people that like to “Get High. Fuck. Destroy.”
Foretaste: Space Echoes | They Like ‘80s Music!
Foretaste's new LP Space Echoes is a fun, 80s-indebted pop record writes Adam Newton, and a really good pastiche, but ultimately still a pastiche.
Adopt This Album: Bruce Springsteen – Live 1975-85
Commercially, the 1980s were kind to Bruce Springsteen. He’d began the decade with both a sprawling two-LP set The...
David Bowie: Who Can I Be Now? | Could Be So Much More
Who Can I Be Now, the new David Bowie box set, is a nice collection of music, writes B.G.M.'s M Milner, but it should have been so much more.
Taking Back Sunday: Tidal Wave | Returning to Their Rock Roots
Taking Back Sunday's Tidal Wave isn't a collection of singles, writes Aaron Cooper, but an actual album and one of their most satisfying releases in years.
Helms Alee: Stillicide | A Powerful and Perfect Jumanji
Go buy Helms Alee's Stillicide. Just beware of the Jumanji effect. When you get the album in your ears strange things will happen. This is a powerful album.
Norma Jean: Polar Similar | Cohesive / Polarizing / Epic
Norma Jean's Polar Similar is truly a great experience.The lows and highs and speed and depth, put together a very cohesive and epic record.
This Wild Life: Let The “Low Tides” Roll In
The Low Tides roll in with a collection of radio-sculpted tracks, leaving a very different This Wild Life resonance than previously anticipated.
The Beatles: Live at the Hollywood Bowl | A Terrible Live Band?
Live at the Hollywood Bowl isn't just a bunch of live Beatles tracks, it shows how exciting and tight they were as a live band, writes B.G.M.'s Aaron Cooper.