"...a blueprint that takes the rapid-fire attack of grind and applies it to abrasive take-no-prisoners free jazz. Or maybe it's the other way round." - MacDara Conroy faces the aural onslaught that is Dead Neanderthals.
"When it works, it's terrific, but otherwise I'm left with an overwhelming sense of ambivalence." - Dara Higgins thinks the internet might be wrong about Grimes.
"Listening to Perfume Genius is like being handed a private diary, but one that might be written in blood, sweat or other bodily fluids." - Aoife Barry reviews Put Your Back N 2 It, the second album from Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius.
"This is a review for a band called Ferocious Fucking Teeth. Piss off." - Dara Higgins on the debut LP from Conneticut's Ferocious Fucking Teeth.
"... dark, moody, emotional. Breakup music. Music for the lights out. Music to contemplate the futility of it all."
"...there's no air of a grand statement or desire to show off, just a band eager to give full flight to their many ideas."
"...a bold statement from a band that have confidently and defiantly hit their stride." - Ian Maleney on Errors' third LP Have Some Faith In Magic.
"We may as well be dressed in black, standing by a pile of dirt next to a grave, about to toss a flower onto a wooden casket." - Aoife Barry on Blues Funeral, the new Mark Lanegan Band album.
"Here's a band that are now adept, virtuoso in fact, at playing silence. It's always seemed that it's in the spaces between the notes that they were saying the most." - Dara Higgins finds life on Earth's new album.
"If The Coral were your thing, put down this record and go away. This is not a Coral record."