The Majestic End | artist: Ghoëst — I just listened to the album Faith by the Cure because I needed to listen to a pick-me-up feel-good fun-time record after hearing the new Ghoëst. | 2.75 out of 5 stars
Missed publishing the last two days as we've been in the studio finishing up the mix and mastering of the third Towerhouser album. In this part of the ongoing Dungeon / Fantasy Synth series, we get more than a bit beat-driven. Downright funky, if you ask me. Plan is
Mean Bone | artist: Buzzard — "Good evening, sir. How about some fuzzy doom from Massachusetts?" "Why yes, that sounds splendid. I'll have one of those." A half-hour later. "Your Buzzard, sir." I dig in to find a fuzz-faced melange of bassy riffing with
Feather and Claw | artist: Owlbear — Owlbear gets right to it. This is bedroom poster metal (in the best possible way to think about such a description) and it fully holds its own against any of the scotch-taped poster bands of a previous era. Proving that the galloping beat is the
NEVER ENOUGH | artist: Turnstile — I can remember a contemporaneous review in MRR saying that Lungfish had gone soft — saying that "Creation Story" from 1993's Rainbows from Atoms was nothing more than a bad U2 song. It is, of course, something of a tradition going back to