Mischa Pearlman

2 weeks ago | floodmagazine.com | Mischa Pearlman

The Fort Collins punks share the first track from their seventh album Nobody’s Going to Heaven just in time for May Day. On March 19, 2003, the USA—with the UK very much in tow—invaded Iraq. It’s that day and singular event which is the setting of this new song by Elway.

2 weeks ago | kerrang.com | Mischa Pearlman

The latter song is probably the best example here, but these 12 tracks bristle with that dichotomy throughout. Even when the band push the boundaries of the genre, as they do with Laughing Without Smiling and One Good Reason– two semi-spoken-word songs that recall now-defunct Brooklyn DIY punks Big Ups – that tension is there. It’s there, too, in Call Of The Void, a brutally direct song about confronting suicidal ideation.

3 weeks ago | floodmagazine.com | Mischa Pearlman

Arriving a decade after the formation of the Atlanta emo-punk trio, the 10 sophisticated, visceral songs on this debut feel like a release of pent-up energy. Michael Cera Palin We Could Be BraveBRAIN SYNTHESIZERWe Could Be Brave is, to all intents and purposes, very late.

1 month ago | floodmagazine.com | Mischa Pearlman

Doing away with their blues-stomp/desert-rock hybrid in favor of something more mellow and downbeat, the Canadian duo’s sophomore LP is a collection of deep sighs and broken hearts. CleopatrickFAKE MOONNOWHERE SPECIALSomewhere, in a parallel universe, Elliott Smith is still alive—still black on the inside, still wondering what the point of any of this is. In the universe we inhabit, however, it seems he’s been channeled by Canadian duo Cleopatrick.

1 month ago | floodmagazine.com | Mischa Pearlman

The experimental metal band’s sixth album relishes in the unexpected, containing some of their most extreme black-metal moments as well as some of their most tenderly fragile. DeafheavenLonely People with PowerROADRUNNERABOVE THE CURRENTIt’s not a paradox to say that Lonely People with Power—Deafheaven’s sixth full-length album—is as ferocious as it is ethereal. Because while those seem like two opposing extremes, they don’t have to be mutually exclusive.