Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2004–2012
Antarctica Takes It!, from Santa Cruz, California, is a fairly easy group to figure out -- a true indie pop project, they put their sound up for examination with their first -- and self-released -- album, The Penguin League .
2007, Bluhammock Thick guitars and elegant vocals mark this debut release from Swati as a rousing, high-energy record from a skilled songwriter. This self-titled release is filled with atmospheric and moody musings on an acoustic guitar in…
2007, Victory Records 1997 is not a year ingrained in my head, nor most other people's, and really, what happened during 1997? An awful lot, I'm sure, but as far as years go, there are bigger. Sure, it was the year Radiohead's critically…
2007, InsideOut The latest from progressive metal outfit Redemption proves to be another successful record in the band's history. The Origins of Ruin is filled with what you'd expect from Redemption: melodic, soaring vocals, metal-style…
Assassins in the House of God starts hard and ends, well, hard. This metalcore outfit really knows what they're doing with their sound, and it shows in the resulting record. The album is fast, the drums punching and the guitar stabbing…
2007, The Militia Group Everybody Else is one of those bands that's not afraid to start a record with a fast-paced track and continue in that direction. It's refreshing, really, to listen to a band so unforgiving in their stylings. This…
2007, Holy Mountain Lesbian is not a band to be taken lightly. Power Hor is a stellar combination of the important forms of European metal; black, progressive and doom-metal are all evoked in this four-track, one-hour album — something…
2007, Hope Division Olympia's Emergencies opens with a catchy belting of “break down before the catastrophe,” setting the pace for the latest from this vaguely post-hardcore group. Throughout, the guitars remain fairly rough and distorted…