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…
Alan Palomo, the man behind Neon Indian, struck chillwave gold with his first two albums, Psychic Chasms and Era Extrana. Unfortunately, these classics are now juxtaposed to the erratic, disjointed sounds and cochlear trauma exacted by his latest release, Vega Intl. Night School. Neon Indian fans are in for a shock when they plow through the eagerly anticipated new…
Deafheaven’s 2013 sophomore album, Sunbather, redefined the boundaries of what we perceive to be Metal. Metal purists were infuriated with the sacrilegious ‘watering down’ of metal with shimmering Shoegaze sounds and the halcyon instrumental segues that seamlessly string Sunbather’s songs together. However, the majority of listeners welcomed the unique sound, which could easily have…
The world of music is a rapidly evolving, mercurial cluster of confusion that can see new artists and genres of music come and then die just as quickly. In this typhoon of variables and insecurity sits a formidable Detroit rock band that has long defied the volatility of the industry to consistently please their fan…