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.
Tag: Run For Cover Records
A new vicious, malicious album from Portrayal Of Guilt keeps their position among heavy music’s strongest firmly intact.
Nothing open up—musically and thematically—for a heady exploration of shoegaze, emo and alt-rock that contains some of their most arresting moments to date.
After their last couple of unsuccessful attempts, AFI’s latest bite at full-blown gothic reinvention proves pleasantly fruitful.
In this Review Round-Up, there’s great passion from Anxious and a load of fun from The Deadnotes, with some total tedium from The Dark sandwiched in between.
In converting their sound to emo—and leaving their modern hardcore spirit intact—One Step Closer have never been further along the road of a true, tangible breakout.
Despite being such a paragon of emo dynamism in the past, Citizen’s new album might be the most half-baked thing they’ve put out yet.
Another stellar work of emo and post-hardcore comes courtesy of Fiddlehead, who’ve proceeded to condense all previous experience into what might be its best form yet.
Stepping out of emo-rap and into experimental post-punk and artistic inventiveness, Adam McIlwee embraces the reinvention for his most identifiable work yet.
Turnover further sever their emo roots for a lucid, dreamier pop sound on their newest album, and calling them ‘mixed results’ would be a severe understatement.