“Alternative” Reviews

The Scottish band’s sixth album is their most cathartic and triumphant work yet, featuring ten songs that explore grief, loss, and mental illness.

Though rough around the edges, these Christian goth/alternative demos hint at a promising what might have been.

Arguably the band’s most ambitious and sprawling album to date.

The goth icons’ long-awaited fourteenth album is their best in decades, and a heartfelt rumination on death, loss, and mortality.

A fascinating new wave curio from an era of Christian music that far too few know anything about.

The new solo project from Writ on Water’s frontman is an abundance of darkly atmospheric dream pop and post-punk.

The quintet return with yet another album of raucous, bracing, and poignant indie-rock.

Alarma Records’ compilation features acoustic performances from some of the biggest names in ’90s Christian alternative music.

The Arizona outfit expands upon their ’80s-influenced sound with ambient interludes and less conventional arrangements.

This instrumental EP from Luxury’s Lee Bozeman contains one of the prettiest songs I’ve heard in awhile.

Nabihah Iqbal ultimately sounds like nobody so much as herself.

Arguably my favorite worship album of all time.

The Danish band’s “twee-est” album to date.

Much of the album is a muddled, incoherent, and underwhelming mess.

Truelove’s Gutter is a magnificent, richly textured album highlighted by Hawley’s remarkable voice and unashamedly sentimental lyrics.

The sound of a band completely comfortable inside its own skin and supremely confident in their skills.

The self-described “world’s only indie stadium band” deliver an album that’s as bombastic as it is sincere.

It seems like every song is a big, swaggering ballad full of crashing drums and epic guitars that wears its heart on its sleeve.

You must either acquiesce to Scott Walker’s latest or just throw the whole thing away and move onto something safer.

The Technoillogical Myopia reminds me of the sort of the music I listened to back when “alternative” music was a thing.