Locrian & Mamiffer
Bless Them That Curse You
Sige\Land Of Decay\Profound Lore\Daymare (2012)
Without a doubt in my mind, Bless Them That Curse You is one of those releases that without hearing a single note of music, people will immediately become excited by the prospects of just such a pairing (hell, I know I did when both groups of musicians began posting pictures of recording sessions and pictures of pieces of paper outlining musical patterns on their respective places of informational dissemination); and the announcement that Locrian and Mamiffer would be releasing a mammoth collaborative album more than likely caused people’s heads to metaphorically explode while simultaneously causing a select few sickos to wet themselves, and I would be lying if I said that the idea of these two outfits doing even a single song together was not at least a little bit titillating. From the moment that I first hear the opening drones of “In Fulminic Blaze” and the chanting vocals that accompany those, I thought that what I was hearing was the best thing to hit these jaded ears in a while; and when the piano and acoustic guitars ushered in a completely new experience almost as if the people involved in the recording were on some next level, that belief … Read more
Twitch The Ripper
Bodiless
Independent (2011)
Connecticut’s Twitch the Ripper is comprised of duo Jon Dobyns and Lonn Bologna. Bodiless is their debut album, which is … Read more
My Dad Vs. Yours
Little Symphonies
MDVY (2011)
They must be putting something in the water in Canada if the staggering amount of great bands to have appeared … Read more
Less Than Jake
Losing Streak (Reissue)
Sleep It Off (2011)
It’s been close to fifteen years since Less Than Jake first released Losing Streak and now holding the rights, they’re … Read more
Lana Del Rey
Born To Die
Polydor (2012)
Elizabeth Grant, now better known as Lana Del Rey, aka the ‘Gangster Nancy Sinatra’, or as one of the more … Read more
