Review Roundup: The Casting Out, The Dirty White, The Forecast, Icarus the Owl, My Own Private Alaska, and Save Your Breath

Follow @hearwax The Casting Out – The Casting Out The first thing that will hit you when listening to The Casting Out‘s self-titled record is the vocals.  Firstly, this is because they dominate the record.  Secondly, it is because Nathan Gray used to be in a band called Boysetsfire (you may have heard of them), [...]

Review Roundup #6: Don’t Mention The War, Down To Nothing, Gilded Age, Patrick Molloy and the Manifest, and Post Harbor

Follow @hearwax Don’t Mention the War – Whack-A-Mole DMTW are probably one of the only post-2000 post-hardcore bands worth mentioning, alongside Alexisonfire. It seems wrong addressing the style this way, since it has definitely seen its day, but at this point, one can’t even say these bands are beating a dead horse – they’re beating [...]

Untied States – Instant Everything, Constant Nothing

Follow @hearwax Untied States‘ Instant Everything, Constant Nothing is a collection of ends that have been untied, reordered, and then tied together again, with a fragmented puzzle of grungy indie as the end result.  Complex structures and layers are fused with a wide variety of musical ideas with heroin-through-vein sensibilities and deadbeat progression choice common [...]