“For those who like indie guitar rock in a variety of sub-genres”
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.
“Jangle-gaze never quite feels so essential as it does in the hands of Laurence Macaspac...(aka Swimming Pools and Movie Stars)”
“A wild ride through influences from punk and hip-hop to 70's rock, Animals is a scathing critique and call to action against a culture that wants to keep us in our place.”
““Ghosts in the Graveyard is back from the abyss with ‘I Am the Dark’—a blistering deathrock gut-punch that dares you to face your demons head-on.””