3+ week, 2+ day ago   (244+ words) The Big Takeover As ‘Sunset’ kicks off this new three-track EP from Hollow Star, I suddenly find myself elsewhere, an eighteen-year-old kid in a sea of black-clad denizens of a basement club as post-punk comes into its own. It’s that…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (843+ words) The Big Takeover Archival releases often function as historical footnotes, preserving alternate takes and forgotten recordings for devoted collectors while offering little insight beyond curiosity. ‘Gravest Gravy’ achieves something considerably richer. Drawn from the October 1977 Ardent Studios sessions that also…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1140+ words) The Big Takeover ‘D.O. & The Bytes’ by Cherry Cheeks understands something that many concept records forget: a story does not need to become self-important simply because it has a plot. Across fourteen compact songs, Kyle Harms turns a tale of…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (266+ words) The Big Takeover Love songs don’t have to be all sweetness and light; they don’t have to rhyme “moon” with “June,” and they certainly don’t have to be all balladic and saccharine. Just as well because ‘I Would Die,’ the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (241+ words) The Big Takeover “Out of the mouths of babes”, that’s what they say, don’t they, when describing the innocent honesty that only comes from those not old enough to have learned the rules of society, inexperienced in the ways of…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (224+ words) The Big Takeover Some riffs, some songs, sound like instant classics, as if you have been listening to them for half your life, as if you have just unearthed a long-forgotten soundtrack to your formative years from the hidden corner…...