Thoughts

Between their first album, Revelation, and this follow-up, most of Virus split to form the band Weed. Thoughts, recorded only six months after the debut, shows a radically different group with only two original members. The tracks are much shorter and song-oriented, as the group trades in space rock for a more conventional blues-rock sound…

If you’ve been following the site for some time, you may remember the name Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving. They were among the first bands that sent us their stuff for our listening pleasure—their 2008 EP Tiny Fragments—and it was one of my first reviews, which I won’t be linking to because my writing wasn’t so great at that point and the post was fairly insignificant. At any rate, I’ve known of the band for almost two years, but for some reason their new album passed by unnoticed until I stumbled upon it by chance when I was looking for a different album altogether. Lucky I saw it, because it was great to listen to these Aussies tear it up once more and I had nearly forgotten about them entirely.

Austin-based indie rock band Spoon have announced a new album called "Hot Thoughts". It will follow the band's last full length album "They Want My Soul" that was released back in 2014. Britt Daniel revealed the album name in an interview during SXSW. Spoon stay in their well-earned lane but tweak the formula just enough on their ninth album, keeping their reliably great songwriting and adding new, electronic textures.

Magnum opus-weight album from organist and electro-acoustic composer Anna von Hausswolff, debuting on Southern Lord with a masterwork of gothic classical beauty - a must check for fans of Alessandro Cortini, Kali Malone, Kara-Lis Coverdale.