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ALBUM REVIEW: Coilguns – Everything We Love, We Destroy

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Coilgun’s fifth album, Everything We Love, We Destroy (Humus Records), presents the band as Punk music but with a broader depth of nineties Indie Rock influences, with the Pixies being the most prominent. Thus, deciding on having Tom Dalgety mix the album seems less like happenstance, since he also worked with the Pixies. Their Hardcore past can be heard in some of the more emotionally explosive dynamics. There is also a darker Murder City Devils, but without the whiskey-soaked suicidal ideation. “Peace Trader” has a moodier Dinosaur Jr. tinge to it. These guys might self-identify as Noise Rock, but they are not as unhinged as the bands who typically fall under that banner and are sonically best thought of as an aggressive Modest Mouse. A fact highlighted in this song. 

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ALBUM REVIEW: Cult Of Luna – In The Shadow Of Your Shadow

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Swedish sludgesters Cult Of Luna have evolved a great deal over the years; their new album, In The Shadow Of Your Shadow (RED CRK), doubles down on the trappings of their genre. This finds them returning to the core sound of post-Sludge that traces its roots back to Neurosis. The stormy chords and thundering drums present a gloomy attack, for the coarse rasp of the vocals to snarl against, forcing the guitar to carry the melody. It swells to the kind of apocalyptic proportions that Sludge is known for before breaking down into a melodic guitar section. Floating along before predictably building up. Joe Duplantier from Gojira shows up for “Sadness Will Reign,” which is another song that leans heavily into the Neurosis influence with its sonic sprawl. Joe’s voice sits back in the mix. Continue reading →


FEATURE: Goth is the New Black: 10 Albums from 2026 Carrying the Genre Forward

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Here we are at another Halloween, the time when the rest of the music world tries to get on the same page as me when it comes to creepy music for the season, which I just call my normal listening. Goth continues to have its moment in various online communities, in part due to the appropriation of the fashion, which has less to do with its subculture than the music from which it was spawned. In the words of Morrissey from the song “Unlovable.” – 

“I wear black on the outside, because black is how I feel on the inside” 

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