Seam, "Shame" I love EPs! I miss rooting around in record stores and coming across them, because they were often a surprise. It doesn't happen very much any more, or at least, I don't come across them very often....
clipping., "Nothing Is Safe" There was probably a time in my life when I would have regarded clipping. askance. I've long been OK with noise in my music, having picked up an affection for industrial as a teenager that continued forward...
Tool, "Intolerance" I picked up Tool's first album when it came out, because they kind of ran parallel to bands like Helmet, who I loved. But they never really did it for me, and I fell off them after this album....
Thundercat, "Daylight" Thundercat is very hard to describe. Jazzy, yeah, but with some R&B, some fusion, some soft rock, some soft jazz? This is from his first album, and he doesn't get any easier to categorize down the road....
Claw Hammer, "Gut Feeling" One of the things that we rail against around here are pointless covers. Especially in an age when so many of the originals are easily accessible, a cover really needs to add something. This is doubly true when it&...
