The Blue Nile struggled for years to create the definitive version of themselves; 1989's "Hats" is the result of their ...

Warmly welcome our newest Weekly Featured Artist, the Italian avant-garde post-rock stalwarts Threestepstotheocean!

The shoegaze renaissance of the last decade or so has been fascinating to behold. Some groups – Nothing, Whirr, DIIV – have reached wide recognition by sticking closely to the blueprint set by the ...

Years of leftist discourse and study have left a nagging guilt in my soul regarding escapism. The further one gets into escapism, the further one gets away from action, from being informed, or from ...

Time is the inevitable grand jury of all things that come to pass, applying in all fields of life. When sticking to the musical meaning, the passing of time gets easily diminished or exaggerated, ...

On Chelsea Wolfe‘s ninth full-length album, The Dark, what should feel like an impenetrable fortress of fog and gloom is mostly drab and quite liminal. I hate to say it, but this particular Chelsea ...

Most albums form their own little distinct realities. Depending on the artists’ style, personal character, and intentions, these realities can be fantastical, philosophical, satirical, political, ...

As much as I loved Slift‘s Fantasia earlier this year, I still felt myself yearning for an album that draws its power from the cosmos, and dishes it out to the the listener without filter, hitting ...

It’s hard to parse how influential Streetcleaner was back in the pre-90s, but Godflesh‘s industrial hellscape (along with fellow noise-makers Ministry) seemed to be foreshadowing the ugly demise of ...

We’ve truly lived through what felt like an endless summer this year, and not in a good way, either. Heat waves, drought, and general discomfort as temperatures continue to rise across the globe.