The last time we ran a piece on Carrion Spring was in late 2023, around the release of “How it all falls away petal by petal” — a record that already felt
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A record split into three movements doesn’t drift — it locks in, circles, and refuses to break. Fainting Dreams approach
Final Gasp headed out on a North American run just as “New Day Symptoms” came out February 27 on Relapse
He didn’t ease into it. By the time the first song started taking shape, Tim Kasher had already been sitting
The Warren is about a mile from Gerry LaFemina’s house, which means extra vocals get tracked on a whim, organs
The first piece written for “Immobilism” takes its name from a way of painting—tenebrism, the heavy contrast of light and
The first dizzying seconds of “Necessities” don’t build toward anything. They circle. A pulse locks in, then tightens, as if
“You better take the long way to see it through / Don’t care about the wrong way, got better things
A blown-out bass line, two minutes and eight seconds, and a title that says more than it first appears to.
There’s a moment in “From Home They Run” where everything briefly lifts — tension gives way to something close to
There’s a line buried in “Albatros” — “My nest is a boat / With which I sail Oceans and Seas”
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Dave Graney gave Royal Commission an early nod on Triple R after playing “The Woman (Who Cannot Be Named),” singling out the fact that Dean Robb had recorded the whole thing on
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Chevreuil have always treated the duo format like a piece of engineered performance architecture. Julien F. and Tony C. formed the band in 1998 after meeting three years earlier at art school, then stripped the setup down until it behaved less like standard rock
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Not many bands can play this hard and still make it stick
4am, phone in hand, watching protest livestreams from Wright Park in Tacoma.
Nine years is a long time to leave people hanging, but Antwerp’s
The name Gr4v1 is lifted from Roadside Picnic — the Strugatsky brothers’
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The first time Hark! A Shark! properly came back, Nat Cottingham got
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The image that holds Airline’s new EP together is an old one:
