RussWarf has written the following articles:
Slaughterhouse is an unashamedly bread and butter garage-rock record – a swift punch of an album which succinctly delivers all the timeless qualities of in-yer-face riffage from a snotty garage band.»
While these jams document an undoubtedly exciting collaboration, only a few of them go so far as to offer anything that sounds like this project's true potential.»
Ultimately, Lex Hives sadly conforms to the patchy-at-best trajectory of the band's major label releases, but at least does so while taking a decisive step back in the direction of being the ferocious rock band which The Hives unvaryingly claim to be, and indeed unquestionably once were.»
With ATP's London based-festival back for a second year and a much earlier slot in the calendar, the British festival season is GO, sort of. Adam Anonymous and Russell Warfield went to bear witness to the 2012 edition of I'll Be Your Mirror, held once more at sunny Alexandra Palace in London, England.»
For all its darkness, paranoia and rage, Cancer For Cure emerges as one of the year's most endlessly re-playable records.»
I Predict A Graceful Expulsion is a majestic powerhouse of a career starter.»
Two artists whose venn diagram was close to a perfect circle before they even collaborated, Hair stands as a collection of eight jams which sound as carefree, ramshackle and loose as they do well-formed and tightly focussed.»
Every song on Hospitality hints at the pressures and dissatisfactions of post-education system existence as well as the joys and excitements but always with a cool sheen of cynicism and irony cleverly blurring the lines between the two tones. »
Sees The Light's best songs draw just as much strength from their simplicity as they do from their addictive refrains.»
Capturing three musicians of virtuosic ability at the (continued) height of their powers, Toward The Low Sun arrives as a return to form which the Dirty Three never actually lost - only a ‘return’ in the sense that we’ve had to wait seven long years since we last heard from them on record.»
These songs are draped across frameworks built by Jason Pierce: lazy two chord shuffles, slowly expanding to transcendental textures of fuzzed out guitars, driving mid-tempo drum beats, and gospel singing.»
Anais Mitchell has created a deeply affecting album which preserves everything that was so marvelous about her beloved Hadestown, and ultimately performs a very handsome job of keeping out of its vast shadow.»
In the Yard is above all else an arresting work which paints startlingly vivid images of place, moment and thought.»
As a showcase of harmonic instinct and vocal versatility, Delta is consistently impressive, but disappointingly difficult to comfortably inhabit.»
Japanese Voyeurs make music which sounds like exactly what it is: a dark, menacing and energetic explosion of the sort of music which they really love, now.»
Presumably, The Keys felt it either necessary or commendable to attempt to expand upon their basic throwback format in the manners in which they misguidedly attempt to do over the course of Bitten By Wolves.»
We need Matt and Kim to bring this ruckus in person, rather than through the middleman of mp3.»
These tracks feel more like unfinished sketches; boasting an almost improvised quality – as if these are just elongated jams, where Gee throws out melodic ideas as they occur to him, and snatches of textural inspiration are applied haphazardly.»
As The Spirit Wanes is a ten track collection of post-rock by numbers; a record which was sadly outperformed by others many years ago, and is left for dead by more progressive and exciting contemporaries.»
