“Dark ‘80s underground sounds influence a new dimension of body music”
Jangly post-punk at its finest: Baby Combat's 12 / Pop Is The Noblest Genre collates fuzzy, hook-led guitar songs with nervous energy and a scrappy post-punk edge into one essential double album. Jacob's Fall's Lost In Silence channels melancholy and inner struggle into dark, atmospheric, deeply melodic rock that's intensely elegiac yet never hopeless. Chris of Wilderness's White Swami delivers a pharmaceutical-grade shot of hip-hop beats fused with synth/sampler paranoia and poetic explorations of drugs, the panopticon, and faith, while John Titor's Time Machine's It's Time to Bounce, Amigo! is a proggy, industrial, and gloriously crass punk odyssey — no filler, all killer.
“Cliff & Ivy combines inventive death rock inspired by the rugged Alaskan wilderness with modern mysticism on goth-rock heavy-hitter, Angels Eyes”
“A slow, atmospheric alt-indie track about survival, finding clarity, and finally touching down on solid ground.”
““Walk Through Ashes” is a song about facing the darkness, embracing the scars, and finding the strength to keep moving forward. If you’ve ever had to fight your way through the fire, this one is fo...”
“'Decadence' is a work of electro-industrial music inspired by the acts of self-indulgence done in reaction to perceived sociocultural decay.”
“Ghosts in the Graveyard bring a goth rock edge to their scorching cover of this classic Afghan Whigs track”
“Arcane Synthetic is conceptually driven by a central protagonist, through the means of time travel, reporting back on the human condition.”
““The Scapegoat’s Agony' — Coma Beach’s razor‑sharp blast of punk catharsis and existential turmoil”