Album Reviews

The Civil Wars The Civil Wars Reviewed by: John Hyland     After cancelling the remaining shows on their European tour the future of The Civil Wars didn’t look promising. However, they patched things up long enough to release their self-titled second album. Now it seems that Read More

Pop. 1280 Imps of Perversion Reviewed by: Stephen Krock     If nothing else, Pop. 1280 has seen that screaming punk is not dead with their new LP, Imps of Perversion. Once you get past their cool band name, wicked album title, and truly electric opening track “Lights Read More

Pond Hobo Rocket Reviewed by: Stephen Krock     Pond is a lot like the Velvet Underground. Just a bunch of alternapop darlings dicking around on keyboards and guitars to make some noise. But some pretty good noise, it turns out. Now, I have no way of knowing the order Read More

Barbarossa Bloodlines Reviewed By: Lexi Bissonnette     Londoner Barbarossa (James Mathe) released his second album, Bloodlines. Bloodlines’ ten tracks amp it up a bit from his first album, adding in a predominant use of drums and an organ to most of the songs. Read More

Jesse Woods Get Your Burdens Lifted Reviewed by Stephen Krock     What is the word for a fully realized, cohesive, yet ultimately dynamic album? Well, in this case, the world is Jesse Woods’ Get Your Burdens Lifted. Seamlessly bouncing back and forth between heavily Read More

Daughn Gibson Me Moan Reviewed By: Lexi Bissonnette     Daughn Gibson released his second album, Me Moan, this month. Me Moan was an interesting mix of music and vocals that didn’t lend to the most cohesive sound. With a seemingly hard continuous sound to find, Read More