Bill Callahan's Dream River is evidence of an artist growing more imaginative, more intimate and "ever more comfortable with his vernacular", says Ian Maleney.
MacDara Conroy takes the manic ride with BL'AST! on their Dave Grohl-remixed masterpiece Blood!
Does Drenge's debut LP provide 'relentless shots of adrenalin straight to the cerebral cortex'? Niall McGuirk finds out.
'All that's left by the end is a shambling corpse, a steady, unsettling gaze from dead eyes' Helm's new EP is no fun at all.
'Obits have made as many records as Hot Snakes and one more than Jehu, but it’s only now they seem to be fully hitting their stride' - Dudley Colley checks out Obits' Bed & Bugs.
MacDara Conroy reviews some of the summer's glut of heavier sounds - metal, hardcore and beyond
'Does the world need another obnoxious record?' - Niall McGuirk on Hunx And His Punx new album Street Punk.
'as haunting as a Hallowe'en night sky and as starkly beautiful as ice on a frozen canal' - Neill Dougan prepares for winter with Cubs' Perpetual Light.
Chris Watson's recordings from Lindisfarne Island form "an imagined historical document, an abstract and fictional manifestation of what a particular place might have sounded like at a particular time".
'Surreal, hilarious, chaotic and mesmerising, you’d be hard pushed to happen across a more entertaining gig this year' says Neill Dougan of The Fall's recent gig in The Button Factory.