Amber Brooks

Love Rarely - Pain Travels
Distorted Sound
90

Love Rarely’s sound on this record is fuller, more aggressive, and angular than 2024’s Lonely People EP. Pain Travels flutters with fast and uncompromising riffs. Shifting through textured episodes of aggression to sedation, at times it becomes wonderfully unpredictable, but still with enough of a hook to draw you back into the moment.

Varials - WHERE THE LIGHT LEAVES
Distorted Sound
80

With the court of public opinion on their side, and a statement piece like this, Where The Light Leaves could change the game.

Pupil Slicer - Fleshwork
Distorted Sound
80
By design, it exists to live, feel and feed.
Dying Wish - Flesh Stays Together
Distorted Sound
90
As it stands, it is safe to say that this is the album that will define the Portland metalcore quintet – asphyxiated with the chilling reminder that horror reveals the beauty in the band’s complex sound.
Magnolia Park - VAMP
Distorted Sound
70
Whilst the record at times loses its way and becomes lost in the concept, there are moments that give the plot points it needs to truly become a thrilling story. The world is complex, and like emotions, has so much meaning that it is almost impossible to understand in its entirety. There is so much that makes its album what it is.
Lambrini Girls - Who Let the Dogs Out
Distorted Sound
100
The flow of the album is great and will be even greater in a live setting. The album does not have anything to prove because LAMBRINI GIRLS already know who they are.
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