Author: pitchfork

As a listener, the way that frontman Timo Kaukolampi talks about his band K-X-P’s sophomore LP II might make you a little concerned about your own mental health. And for good reason, as K-X-P are band not to be trusted,...

In the solemn and self-serious realm of post-metal, no band serves as a working template quite as much as Neurosis. For the last quarter century, the California group has blended massive atmospherics with steely-eyed ferocity,...

Paul Hayden Desser has been strumming his guitar, singing his sad songs, and releasing albums on his own Hardwood Records imprint for 20 years now, and his longevity is as respectable as it is baffling. The Canadian...

During the closing moments of “Get Ready”, a sampled woman sings, “How I wish I could turn back time” over a staccato horn break. Sometimes you get the impression that xxxy, nee Rupert Taylor, wants to...

In an industrial area 40 minutes north of Amsterdam lives a 24-year-old multi-instrumentalist with a Brian Jones haircut. Jacco Gardner’s home is called the Shadow Shoppe Studio, and there, he creates music that hearkens...