Hookworms - Pearl Mystic

Straight away this album sounds familiar. As if you are listening to it for the tenth time but fear not it is merely the eruption of electric guitars. Some say rock music is dying along with the death of electric guitar based music this album points in the opposite. Pearl Mystic sounds as if it were recorded by one of the biggest bands in the 70s but with current recording equipment. The album has a real psychedelic "vibe" to it so to say with fuzzy guitars, spacey vocals and long blistering guitar solos. There is so much happening in each song hat you forget that you are still listening to the same song you were five minutes ago whether or not this is a good thing is unclear but it sure does rock.

The Twilight Sad - Nobody Wants to Be Here

The Twilight Sad are intense. Everything about them is. The lyrics combined with music in this album is an intense experience bordering on the point of making the listener uncomfortable. This is to be expected however when you write an album solely on the theme of despair. If a comparison of sound is needed just imagine Placebo but a bit sadder and angrier. The Twilight Sad's fourth album is a great album albeit not spectacular. It does enough to keep you interested but it never makes you stop what you are doing and just listen.