scintillating with delayed guitar before the reverb-immersed vocal injects the human drama

while their counterparts (though wary and contemplative) respond with hope and resignation so that the album settles into a perpetual state of interlocution and equivocation – the natural state of the romantic

finding a strange middle ground between the intuitive logics of their instruments

Chicago’s borderless Tortoise present their 1st album in seven years with The Catastrophist adding a whole new bunch of stamps to their travelled sonic passports

Carter-helmed 'Hot On The Heels Of Love' remains an absolute game-changing masterpiece

WHITE STAINS - Make Me Sick LP Kraut scintillating with delayed guitar before"If you look at the band photo on Make Me Sicks insert, youll see people from pretty much all the best and most popular hardcore punk bands in Pittsburgh for the past few years. These people know how to make great hardcore punk, and Make Me Sick is White Stains doing just that. While White Stains isnt as as blistering as Loose Nukes or as brutally intense as Blood Pressure, thats only because theyve taken a different tack here, channeling the snotty,