Matthew Tomich, Journalist

Album Review: The Cult - Hidden City

"The Cult haven't forgotten how to write a good song — they've just forgotten how to write 12 of them."

The Music 2015 Writers Poll: Matthew Tomich

Album Review: Fourteen Nights At Sea - Minor Light

"These songs are epic, imbued with such emotional weight that the only words that do justice come from the language of landscape and natural disaster."

The Upside Of Distance

"We meet up once every six months and do some stuff. And when music flows out of that, you're really excited and it sort of snowballs."

Music Saved Ruts DC Drummer Dave Ruffy "From The Ghetto"

"I've never been wealthy with it but I've managed to raise a family and get by, which is enough for me, because I do a job I love."

Album Review: Pat Chow - Are You Okay?

"It's smart sequencing: wow them in the end and you've got a hit."

Album Review: Going Swimming - Deadtime Stories

"This is surf rock for people who hate the beach."

Album Review: Pierce Brothers - Into The Dirt

"If Overdose... isn't on the soundtrack of an indie rom-com by the end of next year, your music supervisors aren't paying attention."

Album Review: Mark Lanegan - Houston: Publishing Demos 2002

"An insightful document into the reinvention of one of alt-rock's great unsung frontmen."

Album Review: Gold Class - It's You

"Gold Class are fundamentally a guitar band, and an exceptional one at that."