The Horrors
Primary Colours (Beggars/XL Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
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Orcustus
Orcustus (Southern Lord). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Tardy Brothers
Bloodline (Candlelight). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Gitane Demone: Life After Death
From gothic siren to torch singer, Gitane Demone has been through it all. This new double-disc DVD collection chronicles the many phases and changes of her long and overlooked life and art.
Wolves in the Throne Room
Black Cascade (Southern Lord). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Advance Base Battery Life (Tomlab). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Gregor Samsa
Over Air (The Kora Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Wavves
Wavvves (Fat Possum). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp
Matthew Moyer basks in the ramshackle glory of Sacred Harp singing, the oldest, and perhaps most punk, American religious music. This new documentary explains it all.
Xasthur
A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors (Hydra Head). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Kirby Five-Oh: Celebrating Fifty Years of the King of Comics
All hail the King! Matthew Moyer finds Jack Kirby’s comics legacy well-preserved in this pair of retrospectives from Twomorrows Press.
Nadja
Desire In Uneasiness (Crucial Blast). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Kreator
Hordes of Chaos (SPV). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Harpoon
Double Gnarly/Triple Suicide (Interloper). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Population: 1
Apocalyptic sci-fi, Busby Berkeley, and the proto-punk of the Screamers collide head-on in this reissue of Rene Daalder’s lo-fi, hilarious, and terribly sad musical. Is that a twelve-year old Beck making a cameo?
Wino
Punctuated Equilibrium (Southern Lord). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Lair of the Minotaur
War Metal Battle Master (Southern Lord). Review by Matthew Moyer.
TV Party: The Everything for Sale Show
Take note, internet-broadcasting upstarts, the DVD reissues of Glenn O’Brien’s pioneering 1980s shambles of a talk show uncover a whole new level of transcendent slack. On this episode: Jeffrey Lee Pierce!
Simon Bookish
Everything/Everything (Tomlab). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Garth Hudson
The Sea To The North (Breeze Hill). Review by Matthew Moyer.
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