Monthly Archives: March 2011 »
Second Look: Hometowns
After the release of their most recent album Departing this year, Ben takes a look back at their memorable debut, Hometowns. After lukewarm acclaim for Departing, he looks at Hometowns for clues about where
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The Great Society Mind Destroyers
Billowing clouds of smoke, a neon-lit cast of tie-dye colors, and various voodoo references help define The Great Society Mind Destroyers. Chaos is an all-encompassing description once the opening track on the Chicago-based quartet’s
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Laugh, It’s a Fright
The best way to get a feel for a band is to hear them live. It’s a great way to start a review, too; the presentation is a vivid description of the group’s power
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Elbow – Build a Rocket Boys! (2011)
With Build a Rocket Boys!, Elbow have not returned with more arena-filling choruses, beautiful as they were. Instead, their fifth full-length boasts a sparser sound and a lament on lost youth. Garvey’s lyrics have
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Jeff the Brotherhood
Jake and Jamin Orrall specialize in fuzzy West Coast rock that plays best in a party atmosphere (or on Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2). There is a vintage feel to the brothers’ guitar-and-drums lineup,
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Nicolas Makelberge
This site aims to emphasize newer releases, many of which have not been released yet. Several times though, I feel an artist is so criminally under-exposed and relevant to today’s scene that a feature
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Colin Stetson – New History Warfare, Vol. 2: Judges (2011)
It’s simply not often we’re given an album that wades through the ether of the unknown and uninhibited. This is why when Collin Stetson puts his lips to the reed; he proves that in
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New Junior Boys Album: It’s All True (+ MP3)
Junior Boys announced just a few minutes ago that they will be releasing their new full-length, It’s All True, on June 13th. Their fourth on Domino Records, it will feature the nine tracks below.
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David Pollack’s Bridges
Now 21 years old, David Pollack’s music continues to evolve. Often an age like this marks the beginning of an aspiring music career, but this NYC-based singer/songwriter has been at it for years already.
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Danielson – Best of Gloucester County (2011)
Best of Gloucester County is an enjoyable and pleasant album, but its depth is limited. The moments of spiritual brevity are generally ephemeral, resulting in an album that sounds important but isn't necessarily so.
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Of Montreal – thecontrollersphere (2011)
While still exploring the promiscuous ego of Georgie Fruit, Kevin Barnes cycles through their new EP, thecontrollersphere. Though he claims that the release's songs are merely leftovers from the False Priest sessions, it's hard
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Teenage Panzerkorps
Teenage Panzerkorps are more than revivalists in the songwriting sense. Their sounds recall the kraut-rock of Can and Neu! with a cutting-edge lo-fi allure, vast and tributary enough to appear like a fusion of
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Obscure Sound: Best of February 2011
This is a wonderful day. February is no more, and finally we can bid farewell to the dullness and bitter cold of the month. Suitably enough, I was sick for the majority of it.
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