Album Reviews

Crocodile Boys Reviewed by: Max Miller You’ve got to hand it to San Diego noise-rockers Crocodiles — they’ve displayed a great deal of tenacity. Across six years, five albums and a rotating lineup revolving around vocalist/guitarist Brandon Welchez and guitarist Charles Rowell, Read More

Hop Along Painted Shut Reviewed by: Matt Kelchner Three years ago there were murmurs from a handful of outlets that a relatively unknown band from Philadelphia had released one of the best albums of the year. The band? Hop Along. Their debut album, Get Disowned, was not widely Read More

Superheaven Ours is Chrome Reviewed by: Matt Kelchner The grunge movement is alive and well in 2015. Case in point: Pennsylvania’s very own Superheaven. Formerly known as the band Daylight, they helped usher in this revival two years ago with their debut album Jar. With another Read More

Mikal Cronin MCII Reviewed by: Max Miller Poor Mikal Cronin. His excellent sophomore LP MCII opened with the line, “I’ve been starting over for a long time./ I’m not ready for another day I fail at feeling new.” What followed was an album’s worth of immaculate power-pop in which Read More

Braids Deep in the Iris Reviewed by: Max Miller When it comes to describing music, “indie” is one of those irritatingly unspecific terms like “post-punk” or “swirling.” (Don’t waste your time checking — I’ve almost certainly used all three in the past.) Beyond the latently racist Read More

Roomful of Teeth Render Reviewed by: R Brian Roser     You know that cool bit at the beginning of an acapella performance of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” when the voices do all the instruments for the intro? That’s this entire album. Roomful of Teeth, however, Read More