The Cure - Pornography (Black Vinyl)

The Cure - Pornography (Black Vinyl)For a band that's known worldwide as the premier purveyors of goth rock gloom and doom (though hardly incapable of sparkling pop gems), it's no small thing to identify a particular album as their darkest, most disturbing sonic statement. Nevertheless, PORNOGRAPHY surely fills the bill. Reportedly created during a time of great psychological upheaval for group leader Robert Smith, it's a gloriously no holds barred existential angst fest, from the very

but his presence isn't nearly as obvious as it is with u2

It’s been over three years since the last proper Bitchin Bajas album - a natural paradise of woodwinds

Snail Mail

Fake Fruit’s visceral indie rock operates so firmly in the present that it’s transportive and unmooring

but over the years it became an audience favourite due to a striking video

These are songs about the joy of continuing to live

The original 100 copy only vinyl home pressing now changes hands for 800 pounds+

like so many others

which Bandcamp called 2019’s Pulse Points “their best album yet”

just a year ago on Dehd’s critically acclaimed Water

GBV is audacious and unafraid

were born partly out of literal distance from her bandmates on the east coast