Album Review

Saint 44's debut 'Blood on My Guitar' devotes itself to creating and maintaining a tranquil atmosphere perfect to soundtrack falling leaves.

‘You Are With Me,’ the new EP from Gordon M. Phillips and Maxwell Stern, feels less like a split than it does a cohesive project.

The atmospheric debut from Burial Waves covers genuinely new ground in the post-hardcore world, a rare feat for a genre that too often relies on nostalgia

On his debut EP, Charlie Hickey straddles the line between poignant and cloying.

Mister Goblin's new album uses the plot of a 2010 horror movie to explore the darkness in us all.

On their fifth album, the New York DIY veterans Palberta have created their most accessible work to date.

Julien Baker's masterful sophomore LP is intensely honest and humble while crossing into such a range of different musical hemispheres that it’s able to captivate any kind of listener.

Philly band Weller's self-titled debut LP is 23 minutes of poignant emotions and pure head-bobbing fun.

Full of creativity and lacking predictability, 'The Amulet' is an album that rings with a sense of urgency most bands fail to sustain through two or three albums, let alone a half dozen.

As exciting as music in 2016 has been, the last thing I expected was a top-10 record of my life to show up out of nowhere and make me feel whole again. That’s not just the power of music, but the power of Jeff Rosenstock.

Real Stories of True People isn’t necessarily groundbreaking, but one of the celebrated aspects of music is that an album doesn’t have to be unique in order to be considered extremely enjoyable. Oso Oso’s ability to write breezy hooks accompanied by tastefully unfiltered lyricism will lead to individuals discovering, and ultimately, resonating with the album.

Overall, I don’t think this is the best release from The Story So Far, but they’ve captured the essentials, packaged them with some real catchy hits, and did a damn good job of it.

Four Year Strong is ambitious as ever. Finally we have new dynamics from a band that just did not put them together efficiently on In Some Way, Shape Or Form.

The vocals can be extremely off putting for some, but my extreme love for the spacey atmosphere has me welcoming this approach. What Diamond Youth really does well is blend all of this music together with great taste. They don't reinvent the wheel, but instead spin it with their own fuzzy power.

I’m not here to tell you that Imbue is perfect in every way, but it’s an honest, heart-on-the-sleeve type of album we’ve come to expect from The Early November, which is why when the last note strikes, you feel as if you have learned something by listening.