In-Depth Music and Film Features and Reviews from Indianapolis
Long overdue, Nicolas Roeg’s look into the beginnings of the Glastonbury Festival is preserved by Odeon Entertainment A woman walks through a muddy pathway, surrounded by the fixtures of an English countryside. Her hair is tossed about by the wind as if mother nature is casting a spell. Passing by … Read More ›
Great Grief Love, Lust, and Greed No Sleep Records ★★★★ Refused is to Sweden as Great Grief is to Iceland. The reference is not pointing to the progressive and highly experimental Refused, but somewhere between Everlasting-era Refused and Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent-era Refused. Great Grief’s “Escaping Reykjavik” … Read More ›
Pylon Records Re-issues One Of Xymox Seminal Releases Medusa is what turned Clan of Xymox into darkwave heroes. Yet, Twist of Shadows is what got the band mainstream attention. In 1989, the Holland group shaved its name down to Xymox and incorporated a more danceable and poppy element to their … Read More ›
Surfbort Friendship Music Cult Records ★★★★★ Friendship Music is perfect in its aggressiveness. Not since the early Black Flag days or L7’s litany of shredded social abrasiveness has there been a punk album as poignant as this. There is no passiveness when it comes to Surfbort’s songs. Even in their … Read More ›
Bill Ryder-Jones Yawn Domino Records ★★★★★ Four albums into his career and Bill Ryder-Jones continues to amass a grand scale of talent with Yawn. Digging into this release is like walking into an empty cathedral and asking for understanding but realizing just how human everything is along the way. The … Read More ›
Leftöver Leftöver Crack The E-Sides and F-Sides Fat Wreck Chords ★★★ 20 years after Leftöver Crack’s inception— born out of the demise of Choking Victim in 1998—it seems appropriate for Fat Wreck Chords to release an album filed with B-sides and rarities. Why leave these punk gems sitting around collecting … Read More ›
Vouna Vouna Artemisia Records ★★★ Caught between the dark sub-surface of wailing goth funeral chants and sludgy death rock lies Vouna’s debut. An intro into the band’s pyre, this self-titled contains songs of sorrow and slow-burning intensity. Vocalist Yianna Bekris has carved out an underworld with her cries that fascinates … Read More ›
Arcadian Child Superfonica Rogue Wave Records/Ripple Music ★★★★ There is a deep, immense trench of emotion flowing through the psychedelic overtones of Arcadian Child’s Superfonica. Instead of a burning flame of psychedelic wonderment, Arcadian Child gives you a premise of a glorious underworld crawling with dark fantasies and strange undercurrents. … Read More ›