Cursive, "Bad Sects" Cursive followed up my favorite album of theirs with Happy Hollow, which probably isn't really a step back or anything, but I always think more highly of albums that are a breakout. Domestica is arresting, an unflinching look into divorce that can...
Chris Farren, "Red Wire Blue Wire" In a fine concept for an album, Death Don't Wait (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is a soundtrack for a non-existent spy movie. I'm already a sucker for spy music, so I enjoy this quite a bit. Melvins, "Night Goat"...
Dead Kennedys, "Soup Is Good Food" This is the song that let me finally crack the Dead Kennedys. I think there's an adjustment, for me at least, as music gets faster and more challenging to find something you can pick out that lets you understand...
Tackhead, "Ticking Time Bomb" Is industrial funk a thing? There are bits and pieces of Tackhead that remind me of industrial, but it's also very electro-funk. At the time I encountered this, I wasn't sure of the combination, and it sounds incredibly of its time...
clipping., "Story 2" CLPPNG, the first full record from clipping., was a record with the band still kind of piecing together what they had. It would be on the next album (Splendor & Misery) that everything would come together perfectly, but there are still times on...