“An introspective anthem that confronts life’s struggles with haunting harmonies, raw resilience, and a timeless guitar solo that cuts through the storm”
Cranking the alternative rock dial to eleven: I Ya Toyah's Closer reimagines Nine Inch Nails' iconic track as a haunting meditation on validation and digital identity, fusing industrial rock with dark electronic textures and cinematic intensity. Coma Beach's Passion/Bliss delivers a five-track fever dream straddling punk abrasion and post-punk hallucination, steeped in Beckett and Schopenhauer. Rural France's SLOTHS is their jangliest, most baroque album yet — organs, horns, mellotron and Silver Jews-esque Americana celebrating "the absurdities of getting older" while honoring their "Pavement playing Teenage Fanclub" mission statement. Publicity Department's S. Michael Brook And The Steam-Powered Trains channels the Raspberries through 90s alt-rock sensibilities — crunchy guitars, two-part harmonies, and one primal scream cutting through the jollities.
“An introspective anthem that confronts life’s struggles with haunting harmonies, raw resilience, and a timeless guitar solo that cuts through the storm”
“Publicity Department return to lo-fi, homespun, fuzzed out pop territory with new album 'Old Master'”