IN ROTATION

• Meshuggah / Nothing
• Moxy Früvous / Live Noise
• Pelican / What We All Come to Need
• Shellac / Excellent Italian Greyhound
• Teenage Fanclub / Grand Prix

Think of Nick Drake on downers fronting Black Sabbath, if Black Sabbath played only the good parts of their songs.

—Steve Albini on Todd Trainer’s Brick Layer Cake