December 2016 Album Releases

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December New Releases

Here is Modern Rock Review’s featured list of albums and EPs released during the month of December 2016. December 2, 2016 Atropas From Ashes Atropas website Buy From Ashes December 2, 2016 Co-Op Co-Op EP Buy Co-Op December 2, 2016 He Is Me Resurrection Buy Resurrection December 2, 2016 Hazzard’s Cure Smoke Iron Plunder Buy … Read more

Breaking the Script by The Novelists

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Breaking the Script by The Novelists

Breaking the Script is a double length album from Reno, Nevada’s rock/jazz quartet, The Novelists. The group combines folk-like story telling lyrics with magnificent multi-part harmonies, layers of instrumentation and rich production. The resulting sound is uniquely theirs and very easy to enjoy from the beginning to the end of this twenty-four song long musical … Read more

Choice 5 for December

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Choice 5 for December

Our December Choice 5 looks at an interesting mix of diverse new rock albums from artists around the world. Some Kind of Youth by Dead Buttons Dead Buttons are an art-rock band from Seoul, South Korea who released their debut LP, Some Kind of Youth, early in 2016. On the album, the group masterfully and … Read more

Shift Seven III

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For their third release, Central PA rock trio Shift Seven has forged a dynamic, 6-song EP with added sonic dimensions. While the band’s previous two albums stayed within the bounds of a gritty boogie-rock sound, Shift Seven III features richer textures and arrangements and explores more rock sub genres. Formed in the 1990s, Shift Seven … Read more

Driving Rain by Paul McCartney

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Driving Rain by Paul McCartney

After making strides towards top quality material in the late 1990s, Paul McCartney reached the apex of his later career with the solid double LP, Driving Rain, in 2001. Here, one will certainly find plenty of musical diversity, both stylistically and tonally as the album spans from extremely polished to nearly improvised and each track … Read more