Frank Black and the Catholics, "I Gotta Move" A thing I admire about Frank Black is that his songs always sound so distinctly like him. Whether with the Pixies, as a solo act, with the Catholics or whatever, he always sounds like Frank Black. It's...
Mule, "Lucky" Every now and again, bands will fuse redneck aesthetics with various rock genres, to greater or lesser effect. In this case, Mule bolts that stuff onto noise rock, bolstered by the usual good engineering job by Steve Albini. I don't think that it's...
Kings Destroy, "W2" You know, there just aren't that many metal songs about tax forms, so let's enjoy this one. The Beatles, "Here Comes The Sun" I've mentioned it before, but it's been a while: it's really disorienting listening to the Beatles with only one...
Foetus, "Red and Black and Gray and White" Soak is the most recent Foetus album, from 2013. I sort of don't believe it's going to be the last Foetus album, but maybe I'm wrong. At any rate, it carries on in his late career form,...
Big Black, "I Can Be Killed" From the first Big Black release, Lungs (later collected on The Hammer Party), this was all done entirely by Steve Albini. After this EP, Albini was able to put together an actual band, and the Big Black sound would...
