In the decade since Believers Never Die Vol. 1, Fall Out Boy have become everything they were destined to be. Turning down the savage guitar attacks and other genre hallmarks (Wentz’s maudlin shouts, etc.), they leaned hard into...
In the cinematic landscape of 2019, cash-grab reboots are the currency du jour, but if the Charlie’s Angels soundtrack is anything to go by, this was made with a lot of love. Overseen by the acute insight of Ariana Grande,...
Like their later-aughts rocker contemporaries Arcade Fire, California’s Cold War Kids have never been afraid to experiment, and not always to universal praise. But on New Age Norms 1, frontman Nathan Willet’s laryngitic vocals –...
Brightness’s Alex Knight left it all on the field with 2017’s Teething, a sort of purge he expected to go nowhere that instead took him everywhere. How does one respond to the whiplash from having no expectations to the second...
Bad//Dreems claim Doomsday Ballet is “less pub, more art” but from Triffids/Angels references to canyon-echo guitar lines, their third album evokes some of Australia’s best pub acts. Map the genomes: there’s the Eddy Current...