BLOC PARTY REVIVES WITH ‘HYMNS’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
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BLOC PARTY REVIVES WITH ‘HYMNS’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Let’s be honest with ourselves: every Bloc Party album that gets release, we secretly hope will be as tremendous as the band’s 2005 debut album, Silent Alarm. For a fan to wish for this is natural, as we find comfort in the familiar, but it is also selfish and unfair. While Bloc Party’s fifth album,…

PROTOMARTYR – ‘THE AGENT INTELLECT’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
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PROTOMARTYR – ‘THE AGENT INTELLECT’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

The Motor City rock sound ignited by the Stooges and MC5 is still alive and well as evidenced by the latest release from Detroit post-punkers, Protomartyr. Their third album, The Agent Intellect, descends into your psyche like a black cloud of angst, accompanied with sardonic quips and thinly-veiled rage.   The mood of the album is a…