“Indie Rock” Reviews

Perfect and stunning.

This split EP is a tremendous change for Canary.

A considerable step in the right direction for Sunday’s Best.

Raft of Dead Monkeys is one band that must be heard at some point in this fruitful life of ours.

Perhaps better than any other Hush release, it illustrates the label’s “anti-rock” stance.

The genius here is that, rather than making these songs into goth ballads or melodramatic affairs, they keep them short, sweet, and best of all, catchy.

In some ways, this album is an amalgamation of everything that Martin has done before.

Royal City has moved from being a band that hinted at greatness with their debut to an act that fully realized that potential in one enormous step.

The mix of bizarre sonics, lyrical freakshows, and normal songcraft definitely feed off each other.

One of the best things going in the alt-country scene today.

It’s not rocket science, it’s not going to change the world, but as music-as-pleasant-diversions go, El Dorado is a damn good one.

Production here is lush and layered and surprisingly keyboard-focused.

As poised and fully realized a debut as you’re ever likely to come across.

Beneath the unaccustomed level of noise, Jurado remains as incisive a writer as ever, and has never sounded better vocally.

A concept album that reveals the lives of the supposedly righteous for the moral travesties they really are.

Mark Protus goes from hard rock to country without flinching.

Echo Orbiter have made a good record that uses a lot of old tricks, but in relatively new ways.

Badly Drawn Boy seems to look for any excuse to break the conventional song set-up.

Unfortunately, the album lacks the tunes to keep up with its masterful lyrics.

Despite much of the album’s rather gloomy sound, there’s nothing overwrought or melodramatic about it