They’re showing their age a bit, but A’s comeback after more than two decades is a surprisingly earnest, entertaining pop-rock package.
Category: Albums
Dark Divine can do horror-slanted metalcore competently on their new album, but there’s nowhere near the imagination necessary to even think about getting further than that.
In this Review Round-Up, Super Sometimes’ pop-punk proves routinely solid, while new albums from CQ Wrestling and Dan Byrne are more notable in their limitations.
From a meeting of The Sleeping and Coheed And Cambria comes Held., who immediately make themselves known with a stunner of a post-hardcore debut.
Inexplicably, The All-American Rejects’ first album in 14 years is a strong example of their era’s pop-rock updated and refreshed.
In this Review Round-Up, Haggard Cat reach a new peak while Red Vanilla make their way up to theirs, and The Flatliners remain solid exactly where they are.
Forget any intrigue that a fusion of alt-metal and R&B could produce; sace6 are so far removed from that, it’s borderline insulting.
Koyo’s intersection of pop-punk, emo and hardcore is taken to new heights, on what legitimately feels like a scene classic in the making.
After a long absence, Basement’s indie-rock reworking has quite a few nice ideas, but also just as many limitations that they struggle to work around.
Frozen Soul’s newest helping of ice-themed death metal is as simple, clean and largely unsurprising as ever, yet it only keeps getting better.