Honoring Lord Spikeheart’s great-grandmother, a war hero in the Kenyan struggle for independence, each track brings in new sounds and new collaborators to unlock further outlets for communicating the same core of anger and disgust at a deep history of injustice.

Taking this philosophy by the reins, the new record Total Reality by Aussie electropunks Dr. Sure's Unusual Practice doesn’t so much wallow in the quagmire of late-stage capitalism, as it catches the waves and surfs into a current of fun-loving absurdist nihilism. 

Relishing in this chaos, Real Home by Kiran Leonard takes a kite out and plays in the gale of time, dancing wildly and energetically even in its most pensive moments.

Misanthropy drips off the blade of metallic riffs, explosive percussion, and powerful vocals, sending us on this expedition with Couch Slut to survey the damage wrought by the wildest and unholiest of desires.

Rarely do we see a band that can create a cohesive sound out of a freeform structure, landing hits and riffs in unexpected places but subconsciously communicating with each other so clearly that even the most unsteady moments still make musical sense.

Taking a page from the realm of Quantum physics, Field Theory imagines complex interpersonal relationships as a web of subatomic particles in constant shift, each individual action causing a ripple effect that is experienced by the whole.

A new alternative pop record called Aporia by Sissi Rada investigates our struggle to create ourselves, sonically stitching together poems about random, disconnected life experiences to turn them into a narrative.

Under the watchful eye of time the project is eerily subtle, led by warm, intimate vocals that shift on a dime from angelic to intense.

It’s Monday and we’re back with another Metal Roundup already! 

The visceral feeling of dialectic breakdown is explored on the new experimental record "I wish I was special" by Guests. By layering cut-up samples, delicate electronica, and repetitive lyrics, Guests constructs disjointed semantics that echo with aching familiarity.

It’s finally back: the Hip Hop Roundup! We have a fantastic variety of underground material to share with you today, so let’s get started!

From black metal to progressive metal to sludge metal, this week brought us a fantastic variety of metal albums to choose from. Let’s see some of the best that this week had to offer!

Though many of the sounds and aesthetics repeat across the album, chaotic and traumatic events in the world and community get spoken about on the album in increasingly hushed tones, losing their shock value as entropy spreads like a plague, serving as the only constant force pushing time forward.

Disturbed by the blood and flesh of the world and uncomforted by God, the speaker leaves us with a bleak acknowledgement of the continuing of this repetitive hell, leaving us no recourse but to join in their screams of agony.

Much like James Joyce’s Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom through the city of Dublin as he interacts with the eccentric townspeople of Dublin, the avant garde record Harbour Century by Eunuchs is a multifaceted stream-of-consciousness exposition of the various ne'er-do-wells, criminals, and addicts of Sydney Harbour.

The new album Southside Bottoms by Dawuna unpacks the emotional life of these communities with an extremely delicate hand, using a lens of minimalist, experimental r&b to bring this extinct ecosystem to life.

However, their new record Турукка киирии (Acoustic) peels back the metal furnishings on this band’s songwriting, revealing that the underlying forces moving their music actually derive directly from the traditions of their unique Siberian Turkic culture.

This concept of religious existential dread is expounded on the hauntological release Organum Psychosis by UgUrGkuliktavikt, with a sound rooted in dark ambient music and pulling samples of church orchestras, old hymns, and field recordings, inducing a feeling of spiritual terror in the face of incomprehensible eternity.

Singer-songwriter experimentalist The Disposable Lighters conduct a character study about this process on their new record Meet Mary Magdalen, a lo-if stream of consciousness that picks up steam just as it continuously derails.

All at once, a stampede of harsh realizations trample us, awakening dark memories from the good old days that remind us of the deception caused by nostalgic rose-tinted glasses, of the dark, unfamiliar forces that bring uncomfortably random misfortune to the world.