Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction and Ghost

This post is gonna be a bit different than usual. It'll be a double review of sorts, and I'm going to give the backstory before I get into anything else. If you don't know who Devin Townsend is, let me enlighten you. Mr. Townsend is a guitarist, singer, and producer well known in the metal community...

Codes in the Clouds - As the Spirit Wanes

This album came out all the way back in January, but I want to talk about it so dammit I'm going to. Not to mention I think it needs more attention. Once I'm done catching up on all the 2011 albums I feel like talking about that have come out thus far, I'll have like a three month cut off date. Codes...

Com Truise - Galactic Melt

Let me say first that I hate the term "chillwave". For about a year or so now everyone in the music blog community has been arguing over whether or not this is a genre. Some say it is, but it's just a trend that will/is fading fast. Others think it is and absolutely love it, calling themselves "chillwavers"....

Battles - Gloss Drop

I hate playing the bad guy. I really do. And it's such a rare thing. I'm not that hard to please, I'm really not. I'm easier on my criticism than a lot of critics and reviewers out there, but for some reason I'm just not liking this album as much as I'd hoped to. I don't dislike it, not at all, but...

Touché Amoré - Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me

Good instrumentation, very one note lyrics, sounds ridiculous on a track like "Condolences" Very short tracks but they all flow together with almost no stops whatsoever so it flows together then just stops abruptly at the end of the album Touché Amoré is a post-hardcore band from LA that have been...

EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints

By looking at this album cover, what kind of music would you guess it garners? Well, maybe you have a better guess than I did, but in seeing this cover I imagined something along the lines of dance pop, party sort of music. I think it's the necklace that does it. However this album is certainly far...

Wild Beasts - Smother

This is one of those occasions where I feel like I'm really late on the bandwagon. Wild Beasts are a four-piece "indie" group from England that have been causing a bit of a buzz lately. I didn't hear of them until this album, but apparently they've been around since about 2002. However this is only...