The week’s essential intake is here! It’s New Music Friday for September 11th 2026!
Tag Archives: folk rock
ALBUM REVIEW: Spirit Mother – Thistle
Spirit Mother represents the post-grunge era, entwined with Stoner Rock in a way that blurs the line between where one begins and the other ends. On Thistle (Sound of Liberation Records), they touch on a few different sounds from the nineties and bring them into a more modern focus rather than just trying to pay homage to an era. “Violent Son” has a moodier swagger and syncopated riff that finds the guitars adding atmosphere that allows the vocals to coast between it all. The vocals here are in a mellow croon that is possibly drug-induced. The strength of the vocals is not in their range, but in how emotion is conveyed and where he puts his voice.
ALBUM REVIEW: Truck Violence – The Weathervane is my body
Canadian Folk-Punks Truck Violence built a great deal of buzz with their 2024 debut, and their sophomore release, The Weathervane is my body (The Flenser), finds them scaling back some of the backwoods folk that colored their first album and digging deeper into the Noise Rock side of the equation. This brings a more angular dissonance to the songs. The vocals are a mix of moans and howls over the boozy attack of guitar with a precise ugliness to create something beautiful. Some of these moments might not be as overtly metal as a band like Chat Pile, though this album would appeal to the less metal-minded members of their fan base. It is a different shade of the dark corners of an unsettled mind through a more pastoral lens. Continue reading