Madball - Set It Off - VINYL LP

It's fitting that Set It Off's first ever independent album is their most furious. Since taking back control of their band, vocalist Cody Carson, drummer Maxx Danziger and guitarist Zach DeWall have sold out headline tours globally and become mainstays on rock radio charts with the likes of 'Punching Bag', 'Evil People', 'Fake Ass Friends' and 'Wolf In Sheep's Clothing [REBORN]'.Filled with rage and bursting with new ideas, the band's new era brings a self-titled hard rock album laden with huge riffs, bigger breakdowns and the band's now signature-stratospheric choruses. It breaks thrilling, heavy new ground for Set It Off and signals the start of something spectacular. Do not miss this on the way up.

The North Carolina trio Setting brings together their substantial collective skills as musicians and their collaborative mindset to bear in their inventive and rich improvisations. Known for work in Mind Over Mirrors, Califone, Black Twig Pickers, Pelt, Peeesseye, Sylvan Esso, and Jake Xerxes Fussell, multi-instrumentalists Jaime Fennelly, Nathan Bowles and Joe Westerlund subvert expectations while creating a sense of wonderment. Their intricate interplay of synthesizers, cassette loops, banjo, keyboards, electronics, zithers, and a litany of percussive instruments form a tactile amalgam of celestial transcendence and terrestrial rhythm, a loamy pulse fluidly guiding every minute fluctuation in feel. Setting's self-titled album is a definitive statement of their improvisational acumen meeting compositional rigor, a robust wellspring of hypnagogic grooves and mosaiced textures.Setting harnesses the euphoria of communal creation. InchThis is one of the most joyous albums I've made with other musicians. It felt like we were all in the slipstream,Inch notes Fennelly. Bowles adds InchMaking this is maybe the easiest thing in my life; it's not struggle music. This collaboration feels like it's just coming out of the air, like it's breathing.InchThe eponymous album from Setting is the product of three intuitive players and deep listeners, artists who use those skills to create transformative music. The trio shirk any broader categorizations, as their unique dynamic pieces are alight with arrangements urgent and smoldering, patient and emotive.

Vinyl LP pressing. For over 30 years the reigning kings of punk rock have remained relevant by continuing to push the boundaries of their music, lyrics and good taste in a way that's as endearing as it is infectious. For that reason it's remarkably apt that the band's latest LP First Ditch Effort is also their thirteenth because ominous black clouds hang over this collection of songs that see frontman/bassist Fat Mike exploring self-loathing and mortality in a more raw and honest way than he ever has before. Despite the fact that NOFX helped invent melodic punk music (alongside their longtime peers such as Bad Religion and Rancid), they've never made the same album twice and First Ditch Effort sees them continuing to push their own musical boundaries. The band also prove that they haven't lost their innate ability to craft a hook on First Ditch Effort as the conspiracy theory-rich InchSid And NancyInch and self-reflective rocker InchI Don't Like Me AnymoreInch are two of the band's catchiest tracks to date. Fat Mike also credits producer Cameron Webb (Motörhead, Alkaline Trio) for helping make these songs so dynamic. Seriousness and somberness also lie at the core of First Ditch Effort, a fact that's most evident in Mike's musical eulogy to No Use For A Name's frontman Tony Sly (InchI'm So Sorry TonyInch) as well the apocalyptic closer InchGeneration ZInch which features guest vocals from Mike's 11-year-old daughter Darla. It's First Ditch Effort's darkest moments that help make it the perfect soundtrack to both a fresh start as well as the end of the world.