NurPaul

At its break-neck pace of 11 Tracks in just 15 minutes, Missouri Executive Order 44’s debut Album “Salt Sermon” shoots like a bullet out of a revolver and hits with that same implied force. With its abundance of fierce, raw energy the Album still manages feel like a complete experience, despite its short runtime, thanks to the band’s chaotic and noisy mathcore instrumentation which is seamlessly interspliced with these eerie Sermon samples that guide the Album from ... read more

Despite there being a plethora of Albums among my all-time favorites that I could categorize under the Post-Rock label, I find it a bit hard to call it my favorite genre nowadays. Mainly because, as a genre, it rarely feels like there’s something new there, with most of the exciting acts being 30+ year old bands that managed to somewhat keep their edge over time and everyone else just being inspired by the same two bands. Now, since the start of the decade we have seen a somewhat new rise ... read more

Queens of the Stone Age by Queens of the Stone Age is, well… Queens of the Stone Age. You pretty much get what you sign up for. For me QotSA has always been a “summer”-band, so I have been going through the entire catalog recently. Their sound is dense, sweaty and just cool without coming across as disingenuous. But that's how I would describe the Band now, so how much of that Vibe do you get when listening to their debut?

Well, more than I anticipated if I’m ... read more

2025 is so far a very strange and confusing year (to put it mildly) but one of the twists I didn't anticipate this year was this Album actually being good. Since its release this Album has been calling me like the Green Goblin Mask calls Willem Dafoe, teasing me: “Oohhhh you like me more then the new BCNR Album Ooohhhh mayben even moren then the new Swans Album Oohhhh” but I guess it’s surprises like these, that just completely subvert your expectations, that make ... read more