Coreline
Bone and Blood as Stone and Mud
Sonic Mainline (2009)
There's something very important one has to keep in mind when reviewing a Coreline album, or indeed merely when listening to it. And that is this: The brain that gave birth to this is one fully capable of rickrolling an entire festival audience, in amongst a performance that also delivers a theater troupe performing in cardboard robot costumes. Tongue in cheek is the order of the day. With that in mind, let's suspend our serious music review hat for a second. Coreline's debut album Please Keep Moving Forward was a mish-mash of styles both subtle and gloriously trashy. Almost eurodance-esque synth lines held into place by clattering beats and weaved through with a pseudo-IDM sense of disorder. It was certainly not for everyone, but it equally certainly didn't get the attention it deserved within the British alternative electronica scene. It's therefore understandable that for the follow-up album, Bone and Blood as Stone and Mud, Chris Coreline has decided to try and mollify the chin-strokers with a more straight-laced mix of his earlier ingredients in a collection of songs that are simultaneously both more accomplished and less engaging than earlier material. Album opener "Coreline Builds Better Robots" is really the only … Read more
Cult Ritual
Cult Ritual
Youth Attack (2009)
Before I begin, let me get this off my chest: I wasn't a big fan of Cult Ritual's EPs. I … Read more
Black Hell
How the Rest was Lost
Hater of God (2009)
Venture deep into the desert of the Southwest and you'll find Black Hell, a doom metal quartet featuring ex-members of … Read more
Weekend Nachos
Unforgivable
Deep Six (2009)
When I heard Punish and Destroy for the first time, Weekend Nachos easily became one of my favorite punk/metal bands. … Read more
