Holy Hell! Amnesiac Turns 20 Amnesiac sits at the midpoint of an illustrious career, and the 20-year mark is as good a time as any for a PSA that will enrage Radiohead’s legions of superfans: it’s just a bunch of B-sides. And it’s all the better for it. Read More
Holy Hell! Flowers Turns 20 The Liverpudlian’s best reunion disc, it’s still less urgent and more uneven than the band at their peak. Read More
Holy Hell! Suburban Light Turns 20 Cobbled together from singles across a handful of British indie labels, Suburban Light feels timeless. Whenever and wherever you listen to this record, you’re transported to Alasdair MacLean’s misty vision of London. Read More
Holy Hell! Free All Angels Turns 20 Twenty years on, Ash’s triumphant third album still packs a punch, but sounds more like a last gasp of a dying era than the dawning of a new one. Read More
Holy Hell! Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP Turns 20 Like their fellow members of the class of 2001, Yeah Yeah Yeahs would ultimately prove not to be the future face of rock and roll and would ultimately begin a slow fade into obsolescence. Read More
Holy Hell! Bath Turns 20 Bath is an intimidatingly dense work of progressive metal that’s equally pretentious and stone-faced. Everything - and as Driver has gone on record to say, everything - is intentional Read More
Holy Hell! Very Soon, and in Pleasant Company Turns 20 Shipping News discovered – and displayed – they could do something bigger than blistering post-hardcore; they learned how to make math-rock with genuine heartbeats and feeling – no small task. Read More
Holy Hell! Fixed:: Context Turns 20 You might wonder what chord progressions more suited for college-rock chestnuts like “I Melt With You” than for ambient music are doing on an album like this. Then, while your brain is busy doing other things, these pieces grow vines and roots and turn into something much wilder and more ancient than Modern English. Read More
Holy Hell! The Last Match Turns 20 With their sophomore album, the Aislers Set branched out instrumentally, into wider sonic influences. Read More
Holy Hell! NYC Ghosts & Flowers Turns 20 The legacy of NYC Ghosts & Flowers is more remembered today than the actual album’s content. Originally released in spring 2000, the experimental record from Sonic Youth was critically panned for being self-indulgent, and was notoriously ripped to shreds in the infamous Pitchfork review where Brent DiCrescenzo runs a train on the band’s egos. DiCrescenzo hits the classic noise rockers … Read More