Finally, the heavily buzzed about album by the British band BIG PINK is upon us. The band has been slowly releasing singles building to this release the ways bands used to do it. (Most labels seem to have forgotten this strategy.) BIG PINK have a BIG sound though their songs are fairly basic & straight-forward. Imagine if PHOENIX took "Wolfgang Amadeus..." & drenched it in tons of MY BLOODY VALENTINE esque digital noise & distortion & replaced the drums with drum machines. There's a few legitimate 'hits' on this album though they'll probably only make it onto the charts in the U.K. The shoegaze revival seems to be on the way down but BIG PINK may be the last band to successfully revive this sound before it goes the way of the dodo...again.

They made us wait until the year was nearly over but the much anticipated second album by the mighty Denver death metallers BLOOD INCANTATION is finally here. We were massive fans of their existential, cosmic horror inspired technical death metal debut "Starspawn" & the group continues to contemplate the void on their follow-up. Complex riffs & stream of consciousness song structure with some very melodic & memorable moments that owe as much to MORBD ANGEL as they do early MASTODON. This is possibly the best metal album of 2019 & if you can't already tell, we're TOTALLY STOKED ON THIS ONE. RECOMMENDED.

Killer soul album recorded between 1967-1972 in Buffalo, NY. Check this out while you can, because this stuff isn't easy to come by in its original, analog format.