You can practically smell the stale beer and sweat radiating off the opening chords. Some records ask politely for your time, but 'Talon Dance' kicks the door off its hinges and demands you listen. Decay Chain has arrived with a debut single that captures the exact feeling of being young, angry, and entirely fed up with the polished state of modern alternative music. It is a...

Post Death Soundtrack’s latest offering, “In All My Nightmares I Am Alone,” arrived not so much as a collection of songs, but as a psychic weather event. Listening to Stephen Moore’s solo excursion is like being invited to a wake where the dearly departed is, perhaps, oneself, or maybe just the idea of a stable Tuesday afternoon. It’s a dense, prickly thing, this record....