Musical supergroups rarely live up to the sum of their parts. So often, they turn in messy, unfocussed records that...
Joseph Earp
For me, as for so many, Brian Wilson isn’t only a musician I look up to: he feels almost like...
By their own account, Desolation Sounds is Gallows’ attempt to take their sonic mix of doom and defiance to a...
According to Katie Crutchfield, her last album under the Waxahatchee name, Cerulean Salt, was about growing up. By extension then...
On the surface, New Age of Old Ways, the new release from British heavy metal outfit Stoneghost is an uncompromising,...
1991 might have been the year that punk broke (according to Sonic Youth, at least) but 1992 was the year...
Dear John Darnielle, First things first: big fan, right here. I’m one of those diehard Mountain Goats junkies that has...
Better Than Home, the new album from blues stalwart Beth Hart, is a quiet achiever of a record. It never...
The first time I heard Under The Pink, almost eight years ago now, I hated it. I came to the...
I love my job as a music reviewer. I love the opportunities I get to discuss records that mean something...
