Best Albums of 2013
Black Bug – Reflecting the Light (Hozac) The only mark against this album is that many of the songs have […]
Plexi
Part of Me 7″ Sub-Pop, 1995 By the time I found Plexi, around the time their excellent Cheer Up record
Lore City
Absence & Time CD Self-Released Last spring when this album was released it was easy to escape the pull of
Kabul Golf Club
Le Bal Du Rat Mort EP Uproar for Veneration, 2012 It’s taken about a year for the five tracks on
Bl’ast!
School’s Out 7″ SST, 1987 A few weeks ago, the Southern Lord label released an album of long lost Bl’ast! recordings,
Chokebore
Thin As Clouds/Pink Deluxe 7″ Amphetamine Reptile, 1995 You gotta love anomalies. While the rest of the world was consumed
Tales of Terror
Tales of Terror LPCD, 1984 ***Long overdue reissue alert*** The finest track on The Melvins’ Everyone Loves Sausages LP has
Red Monkey
Do What You Feel (Feel What You Do) 7″ Slampt, 1997 Back in 1997 there weren’t a ton of groups
Magic Shadows
Sunburned Mind 7″ Magic Shadows, 2013 There’s no better place than Canada these days to find dense, shimmering punked out
Best Reissues of 2012
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Volume II 3xLP – (1972) This high water mark of ’90s electronica gets a
Best Singles/EPs of 2012
Anomalys – Retox 7″ (Slovenly) You might be accurate calling this Dutch treat a psychobilly band, but to me that speaks
Best Albums of 2012
The Chewers – Chuckle Change and Also (Art Pushers) There’s weird and then there’s weird. Some bands try so hard to subvert