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Orkney: Symphony Of The Magnetic North (The Magnetic North) #NNR7
This album is at once as monumental as a menhir and as intimate as the unspoken. Each mound speaks to every inch of skin, each wave to every thought, each note to every step, and the whole delights the heart just as much as the mind. It is grand and beautiful, subtle and deeply human. Perfectly unclassifiable, with its classical elements blended with electronic music and the folk sounds of the vast northern moors, "Orkney: Symphony Of The Magnetic North" takes its place here
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Troublegum (Therapy?) NNR#1
By breaking away from the ubiquitous grunge scene, Therapy? manages to deliver a blend of metal and alternative rock that possesses both the urgency of punk and the effectiveness of popfrom which it borrows, for this album, the melodic sensibility that sets it apart from its earlier, rawer works, which were more in the vein of The Jesus Lizard or Big Black. Yet "Troublegum" rises to the challenge of a unique sonic fusion while retaining a constant feverish energy and an elect
Nov 13 min read
You're so pretty (Sour bitch)
Alternating between rock and punk with driving rhythms, Sour Bitch’s music fits perfectly into today’s disillusioned landscape, like a refreshing outburst—one focused primarily on interpersonal relationships, but whose broader social implications should by no means be overlooked.
Oct 162 min read
We R all gonna die (Mothers's cake)
The Austrian band Mothers's Cake, which has been active for about twenty years, blending psychedelic rock, punk, funk, and ’90s influences such as grunge and fusion, released their new album We R All Gonna Die on October 8.
Oct 143 min read
The reunion (The Carringtons)
The Quebec-based band The Carringtons are back with a fast-paced, hard-hitting album, The Reunion, which features, almost without pause, ten short tracks, where their punk rock expresses itself freely but with a more polished finish, a choice that will offend some, while others will see it as the ability to reach a wider audience with a fine rock anthem that stays true to its roots, far from preconceived notions.
Oct 62 min read
Give me dust (Cancer bats)
Here are our Canadian Cancer Bats, back on Marshall Records with the thunderous Give Me Dirt —a whirlwind of razor-sharp socio-political tracks brimming with incredible energy and musicality.
Aug 101 min read
Abyss (Anika)
In Abyss, the artist synthesizes, with a particularly rocking personal anger, half a century of injustices and divisions that have brought us to where we are today: on the brink of the abyss. Powerful as a megaphone, caustic as a Maldororian chant, inhabited as a shamanic dance at the foot of the Wall.
May 25, 20254 min read
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