Matthew Dear's first release since 2012's Beams is a pulsing goth-pop jewel that pulls the best elements of new wave — all the sex, melancholy and sly humor — and saunters off into the darkness.
The U.K. band uses interviews, newsreels, propaganda films and its own stormy instrumental music to craft a fun-but-powerful statement about industry and automation.
Featuring members of Brilliant Colors and Limp Wrist, Flesh World's new album, Into The Shroud, both sharpens and expands the band's twilight-skating post-punk.
With a video set on the Las Vegas strip, Cameron sings about a wound deeper than the layers of synth carved into the first single from Forced Witness. Angel Olsen sings backing vocals.
Noise-rock thrives on ugly. It is the parasitic, shape-shifting monster of music, and Couch Slut is here to explosively mutate into a creature from The Thing.