Green Day
Demolicious
Reprise (2014)
Many people don't realize it, but Green Day released a trio of albums throughout the fourth quarter of 2012. However, due to some personal problems and a public breakdown at a festival from frontman, Billie-Joe, promotion for the albums was put on hold. Those albums, Uno!, Dos!, and Tre!, had their share of lackluster songs, but they also contained some of my personal favorite tracks from the band since 2000's, Warning. Much like 21st Century Breakdown, the entire project suffered from too much material. If they had cut it all down to one album of their best songs from those sessions, they could have made one of my favorite Green Day records. When I found out they were going to release Demolicious, I held out hope that they would rectify this whole project. Since Green Day demos rarely differ from the final product, there isn't much incentive in picking up the demo album, except for a previously unreleased song. This was Green Day's second chance to get these songs out and promote their trilogy records. In the end, they went mostly with mediocre songs. They also still went with too many (about half of the entire "Trilogy"). Of the 18 … Read more
Coffinworm
IV.I.VIII
Profound Lore (2014)
Coffinworm has been terrorizing the world since the release of their debut demo, Greater Bringer of Night. From that point … Read more
Merzbow, Scott Miller & Lee Camfield
No Closure
Cold Spring (2013)
Merzbow is noise music. While this may seem like an overstatement, Masami Akita is the forebear of the genre itself … Read more
Barren Harvest
Subtle Cruelties
Handmade Birds (2014)
It is quite difficult to define what Barren Harvest is offering in Subtle Cruelties. The duet of Jessica Way of … Read more
Tweak Bird
Any Ol' Way
Lets Pretend (2014)
Tweak Bird is the Los Angeles sludge-pop duo of Caleb Benjamin and Ashton Leech. Their stoner/garage rock crossover sound has … Read more
