Traces of experimental, post-hardcore, hard rock, and art-rock filter through each song leaving each track fresh faced and free from preconceived judgments the listener may throw their way due to a particular style the album may or may not favor.  Full text...

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The album gives the listeners just as much as they want to take from it–throw it on for some background music while at work, or dive into the lyrics and guitar riffs for a dizzy, meditative trip.  Full text...

Casket Salesmen has apparently been a self-fulfilling project, one to please its band members more than fans; if that's musical masturbation, I guess that renders most any who may stumble across Sleeping Giants quite the voyeur.  Full text...

It's a collection of secondhand prog-rock affectations and hard-and-heavy posturing.  Full text...

This band sounds a little like Sparta and a little like Helmet, and maybe a little bit of Queens of the Stone Age. They use a lot of similar guitar work to Sparta with the high, heavy reverb on the lead, and sometimes the spacey structure of the rhythm and drums. They like to heavily drive simple chord progressions and repetitive bass lines, like Helmet or Queens.   Full text...