Exclusive Track Premier - "Geneva" - Watford, England's Lakes unveil "The Geneva EP"

"The Geneva EP"  to be released on January 25th is perhaps more focused than the previous "Tahoe EP," and Lakes needs much less to say so much more. With Geneva, the UK act brings...

New Video Single Premier!

Beginning with a twinkling picked guitar riff against stop/start drumming, I can already feel the stars aligning. The intro leads to a sudden rush of strumming riffs while a rusty sounding effect on the guitar for a few measures alters my state...

Elephant Gym - Underwater - Review & Stream

New Video Premier!

Yvette Young of the band Covet just released a beautiful new solo song, watch and listen here:

Yvette channels Tigran Hamasayan in this new piano driven jam. The syncopated riffs dazzle with their punctuality, while the background strings provide warmt...

Best of the 1st 6 months of 2018 in Math Rock

music releases from around the world.
 

Puebla City, Mexico's Flodhäst deliver a stunning new post rock album.

Track 2 "Donde Nacen Los Rios" is my favorite song on the album and perhaps the most upbeat jam on the record.

Beginning with a quiet 

glitchy, warbled 

effect, a guitar strumming pattern takes focus...

  Album Review

Lima, Peru's Wanderlust bring a vibrant energy to math rock, infusing a unique Latin jazz flavor with rock style drumming and a progressive song structure.

Not until two minutes in do the vocals kick in, adding flare and emotion to the mix of the second so...

New Music Video Premier!

Austin, TX 4 piece band Southpaw Sonata premier their new song "Strange Loop"

This lyric video is aptly titled "Strange Loop," as by the sound of the effects used, I see the loop part as meaning a hyper-loop that has transported Southpaw Sonata t...

Exclusive Track Premier: "Waas" 

Belgium's Kassei emerge with their debut album "Muur"

With math rock's expansion into many other genres since its ambiguous conception, a musical recipe ever leaning towards global domination has pursued reaching into the impossible....

New Album Premier!

Solo Uruguayan Guitarist Manuel Tenchio Premiers His New Album "Bedroom Chaos of the Inner Noodle"

An unknown inter-dimensional alien life form has taken hold of Tenchio, infiltrated his computer systems and had it's way with his creation, afflicting a...

Taiwan's Elephant Gym perform their song "Midway" at Megaport Festival in their hometown of Kaohsiung, Taiwan

If you want to see this band play at  The Math Rock Times Fest in Austin, Tx March 15-16  post a Facebook comment on this post!

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New Song Premier! 

After 8 long years without releasing any new material, Ireland's  "The Redneck Manifesto"  debut the single "Djin Chin" from their new album to be released on Nov 30th.

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Currents EP is the first release from the Southern California band Covet which is fronted by the highly talented and prolific solo artist Yvette Young, formerly of the band Astrochasm, who have since regrouped w/o Yvette into a band called Tufon.

This long awaited EP wa...

Review & Interview

  Denver, Colorado's Confluence return after 4 years of inactivity with their new and final album      "Closure, Start Over"

"Believe" starts off with a bang, utilizing a quick, intensely syncopated snare/kick drum pattern and falli...

  Exclusive Premier

"Montano" boasts genuine bright and upbeat moods invoking feelings of nostalgia and content. This song seems to have two main sections. The first begins with a single guitar tapping a simple descending arpeggio for several measures, followed soon by...