This set of energetic, guitar-heavy rockers inspired by life on the road finds Alice Cooper tapping into the sinister excitement of his earlier material.
With 15 tracks that average less than two minutes apiece, this Frankie Cosmos-influenced debut from Texas' Caleb Campbell stands as a similarly tuneful indie pop gem. Full of contradictions -- anxious and soothing, articulate and dreamy, simple and complex, enchanted and alienated -- it's the kind of album that will hold up to deeper scrutiny but is better enjoyed for its warm, whimsically bittersweet surface.
A ten-song, highly melodic juggernaut of Norse brutality that is as taut and clinical as it is glorious and epic, the Faroe Islands metal ambassadors' fourth LP is as pure as fresh blood on snow. It takes a mere chorus to sink the hooks in, gut you, and throw your scraps to the gulls.
