By Eli Shively, General Manager [Epitaph; 2016] Rating: 6.5/10 Key Tracks: “Glitches,” “Petal” Every Time I Die don’t try to reinvent the wheel with each new release, but that’s far from a bad thing. The Buffalo metalcore quintet have reached their eighth full-length LP with Low Teens, and from a listener’s perspective there’s nothing all that…
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Album Review: Touche Amore – Stage Four
By Eli Shively, General Manager [Epitaph; 2016] Rating: 8/10 Key Tracks: “Displacement,” “Eight Seconds,” “Skyscraper” Touché Amoré aren’t a pretentious band by any means, even though they may come off as such to some. Although some core fans lamented the more drawn-out, reverb heavy direction they took their last full length Is Survived By, it remains…
Album Review: Helms Alee – Stillicide
By Eli Shively, General Manager [Sargent House; 2016] Rating: 6/10 Key Tracks: “Unintoxicated,” “Dream Long” “Honing your craft” — three words many musicians use with pride when referring to sharpening technical chops or mastering the songwriting process. It is not, however, a phrase commonly heard out of the mouths of those on the aggressive end of…
Track Review: Modern Baseball – Everyday + Apple Cider, I Don’t Mind
By Eli Shively, Reviews Editor [Run For Cover; 2016] Rating: 7.5/10 Perhaps the most hotly anticipated pop punk release of this year, Philly quartet Modern Baseball’s Holy Ghost stands to be yet another tell-all entry in the musical diary of dual twenty-something songwriters Brendan Lukens and Jake Ewald. Judging by its first two singles, “Everyday” and…
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