The magical monthly segment where I briefly touch down on a gauntlet of albums I didn't get a chance to review this past month. These are just my short, straightforward, passionate, biased opinions. These are the albums I touch down on: Killjoy Club - Reindeer Games Grouper - Ruins Wiley - Snakes & Ladders This Will Destroy You - Another Language Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain Gerard Way - Hesitant Alien Twin Peaks - Wild Onion Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind At The Gates - At War With Reality The Contortionist - Language Jessie Ware - Tough Love
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YUNOREVIEW: SEPTEMBER 2014
Reviews2 CommentsThe magical monthly segment where I briefly touch down on a gauntlet of albums I didn't get a chance to review this past month. These are just my short, straightforward, passionate, biased opinions. Saor - Aura Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend Bones - Skinny King 810 - Memoirs of a Murderer Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lose Dilated Peoples - Directors of Photography J. Mascis - Tied to a Star Ariana Grande - My Everything White Fence - For the Recently Found Innocent Kimbra - Golden Echo
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Pikapika Fantajin
Reviews1 CommentJapan's Kyary Pamyu Pamyu delivers another collection of absolutely adorable pop singles on this latest LP of hers.
YUNOREVIEW: June 2014
Reviews2 CommentsThe magical monthly segment where I briefly touch down on a gauntlet of albums I didn't get a chance to review this past month. These are just my short, straightforward, passionate, biased opinions.
Fucked Up - Glass Boys Fire! Orchestra - Enter Cormorant - Earth Driver Venetian Snares - My Love Is A Bulldozer Antlers - Familiars First Aid Kit - Stay Gold 50 Cent - Animal Ambition Keaton Henson - Romantic Works
Additional reviews: Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown Linkin Park - .....sorta... Anathema - Distant Satellites Cakes Da Killa - Hunger Pangs G-Eazy - These Things Happen
Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere ft. Elliot Quinn
ReviewsCommentWith fellow reviewer Elliot Quinn, I talk about the fifth full-length album from Portland blackened folk outfit Agalloch.
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Christmas Island
ReviewsCommentWith Christmas Island, Andrew Jackson Jihad comes through with what's essentially their pop album. While the band brings plenty of concise tracks with straightforward instrumentation, they mostly lack the emotional impact of previous material--the instrumental finesse, too.
Lord Mantis - Death Mask
ReviewsCommentLord Mantis' latest record bring noise and ambitious songwriting into the fold of their heavy, blackened sludge.
Pixies - Indie Cindy
ReviewsCommentPixies return with a textbook example of a disappointing comeback record.