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Frontiers Music [Release date: 24.04.26] “In the beginning of 2020, Generation Radio came together with the intent to form a band with a purpose — to bring classic 1980s rock back to life.” So says the band’s website. Formed by … Continue reading →

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“Deceiver” and “Dark Matter” will both be celebrated on this North American tour.

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As the Bandcamp page explains, “Media Puzzle (May 7, 1997 – June 22, 2006), foaled in the United States, was an Irish horse best known for his win in the 2002 Melbourne Cup.” A few years ago, a group of Australians borrowed that name for their band, whose new album is appropriately titled New Racehorse.…

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We gave Asher White earned an Artist To Watch accolade last year upon the release of her breakout album 8 Tips For Full Catastrophe Living. Since then, the Brooklyn-via-Rhode Island musician has contributed to the benefit compilation Big Hug Volume Three and released a track-by-track cover of Jessica Pratt’s debut album. Today White’s back with “Nightingale’s Version…

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In the months ahead, the experimental Montreal rockers BIG|BRAVE will release their new album in grief or in hope and head out on a North American tour with the Body, their collaborators on the extremely cool 2021 album Leaving None But Small Birds. We already posted BIG|BRAVE’s recent single “the ineptitude for mutual discernment,” and…

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Humans are guests on Earth. Mother Earth not only protects—or needs to be protected. Sometimes she is the one who punishes. The Earth is breathing beneath me shows her at her deeply irritated and aggravated side.

Who else but Kurt Ballou could produce such a world-ending soundscape. Armed for Apocalypse don’t stand in opposition to the apocalypse; they actively help shape it in sonic terms. Here, things crash, rumble, shatter, and the very framework groans. When Armed for Apocalypse get moving, they can’t be stopped. When a massive boulder starts rolling down a mountain, you don’t stand in its way—you surrender to your fate.

“Lost without light” leaves nothing but scorched earth while “Keep up appearances” has some Rock moments. A personal highlight is the instrumental “Bathed in a tepid pool of my own filth” which would also have fit perfectly on a Primitive Man album. A slow descent, before the title-closing track celebrates the downfall once more for a full six minutes.

The future looks bleak, and the present holds nothing for you. That is the exact feeling this record encapsulates: it is grainy and angry. Armed for Apocalypse drives a rusty nail into the coffin where any hopeful prospect of things to come lies—and it is vicious.