Ocean Grove’s musical evolution continues, now reaching blaring grunge that ekes out a few good melodies from its impervious wall of sound.
Despite falling squarely in the classic rock revival space, Dorothy’s newest album avoids so many of its scene’s pitfalls, embracing bravado and personality and succeeding greatly for it.
While nothing revolutionary, Cold Years’ bounding, bold alt-punk continues to produce moments of real gold, and sticks its landing with barely a hitch across the board.
Bowling For Soup’s newest album falls right in line with their usual level of quality, not raising the bar at all but acting as another helping of their crowd-pleasing pop-punk.
In this Review Round-Up, there’s a wide selection of metal from Greyhaven, Atoll and Sicksense (all of which fall short to varying degrees), filled out by some interesting hip-hop from Triple One.
In their latest attempt to reinvent themselves, Papa Roach settle on clunky, heavy-handed rap-rock with the intent to sound a lot more exciting than it ultimately does.
With their continually growing star, Stone Broken’s hard rock becomes more impactful and overall better on their new album, though still very much tied down to its scene.
Back at their best once again, Cancer Bats’ newest album sees them deliver more sludgy, incendiary hardcore with the same flair that makes them one of the genre’s greats.
In this Review Round-Up, Short Stack come out on top with their newest helping of pop-rock, alongside Out Of Love’s career retrospective, Midwich Cuckoos’ extensive new album, and Cosmic Ninja’s flawed new EP.
An impressive array of guest stars and foreboding industrial production manage to do a lot of work on HEALTH’s newest collaborations album, even if some expected unevenness will continue to show through.