Alternative Rock Album reviews - Page 8

GenresAlternative Rock

Eat the Elephant

A Perfect Circle

A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant

Album review

Alternative Rock
Rock
The piano changes the emotional temperature of Eat the Elephant. A Perfect Circle allow it to carry much of the album's weight…

Fission

Dead Poet Society

Dead Poet Society - Fission

Album review

Alternative Rock
Hard Rock
Rock
Fission turns personal uncertainty into music with a very firm physical presence. Dead Poet Society give the guitars a thick…

Morning View

Incubus

Incubus - Morning View

Album review

Alternative Metal
Alternative Rock
Metal
Rock
Morning View is comfortable with open space. Incubus can still make a guitar riff hit hard, but they also allow a song to settle…

Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters

Album review

Alternative Rock
Punk rock
Rock
This Is a Call sounds like someone discovering that a simple tune can take a great deal of noise. The opening song on Foo…

Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop

Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop

Album review

Alternative Rock
Hard Rock
Rock
Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop is a wonderfully odd title for an album that makes so much of its music immediately…

-!-

Dead Poet Society

Dead Poet Society - -!-

Album review

Alternative Rock
Hard Rock
Rock
Dead Poet Society build much of -!-'s appeal around a striking difference in register. Jack Underkofler can move easily into a…

Cavalier Youth

You Me at Six

You Me at Six - Cavalier Youth

Album review

Alternative Rock
Hard Rock
Punk rock
Rock
You Me at Six make their intentions easy to hear on Cavalier Youth. The choruses are large, Josh Franceschi sings clearly above…

PUP

PUP

PUP - PUP

Album review

Alternative Rock
Punk rock
Rock
PUP make a rough entrance and then keep revealing how much control sits underneath it. Their self-titled album is packed with…

Purple

Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots - Purple

Album review

Alternative Rock
Grunge
Rock
Interstate Love Song lasts little more than three minutes. It has a lovely guitar opening, a chorus that seems to arrive exactly…

Your Favorite Toy

Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters - Your Favorite Toy

Album review

Alternative Rock
Hard Rock
Rock
Foo Fighters have decided to get on with it. Your Favorite Toy is a short, noisy record with very little interest in explaining…

So Much (for) Stardust

Fall Out Boy

Fall Out Boy - So Much (for) Stardust

Album review

Alternative Rock
Pop
Punk rock
Rock
The strings at the beginning of So Much (for) Stardust suggest that Fall Out Boy have arrived with a large statement to make. Then…

Bleach

Nirvana

Nirvana - Bleach

Album review

Alternative Rock
Grunge
Punk rock
Rock
About a Girl is the giveaway. Between the grinding guitars and Kurt Cobain's roughest singing, a small, beautifully shaped pop…

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