Idlewild, "These Wooden Ideas" It's not always clear ahead of time if an album or band will click or not. Reviews and comparisons can take you only so far, and until you sit down with a record and really try it out, you'll just never...
The Garbage & The Flowers, "Carousel" This is from a comp from the Twisted Village label (Deep Funnels of Entry) featuring a bunch of the psych rock bands the label had. I don't even know who was the most famous of these bands - maybe the...
Foetus, "Clothes Hoist" Foetus released live albums pretty often, which were usually pretty good. The live show was often more direct and noisier, driven by having a live band making a racket. So it's not just a re-hash of the album tracks, making them good...
Future of the Left, "the male gaze" This is a pretty straightforward song from Future of the Left, perhaps to kind of match the subject of the song. The Delgados, "Accused of Stealing" There's another band that this is really reminding me of, and I'm...
Primitive Man, "Loathe" Primitive Man is very aptly named, a knuckle-dragging sludge/doom act from Denver, putting out punishing, bleak records that are unsubtle in the extreme. This little ditty comes from Home Is Where The Hatred Is, an EP from 2015 that is just...
