The opening track here rocks like something off of This Year’s Model, with its loopy organ break and Spectorific caveman drumming. There’s a jittery new wave abandon to “Slow”, and the wistful hooks of “So It Goes” are driven home […]
The opening track here rocks like something off of This Year’s Model, with its loopy organ break and Spectorific caveman drumming. There’s a jittery new wave abandon to “Slow”, and the wistful hooks of “So It Goes” are driven home […]
The battle scars of Richard Buckner’s voice may never soothe the Starbucks crowd, but that doesn’t mean his music doesn’t go down easy. The swirling, pretty songs of Meadow are made for recent Buckner converts and continue the return to […]
Anyone who has discovered something at once uncommon and comforting amid the dusty bric-a-brac of a crawl space will appreciate the fact that M. Ward spent a good portion of the last two years crafting Post-War, his fifth album, in […]
The third release by Essex Green is smart, hook-filled pop at its finest. Sweet sounds are tempered with lyrics that describe complex hopes and desires. None of it is cloying, thanks to smartly sympathetic arrangements that utilize some dozen additional […]
It would be great to report that the so-called lo-fi minimalist charm of Fred Cornogs latest one-man, home-recorded opus is, er, charming. Conceptually, its a songcycle about drugs the ones we take to get high, and the ones we lean […]
Portland singer-songwriter M. Ward stresses that Transistor Radio was intended for vinyl, but for practical purposes was released on CD. Regardless of the format, the music is blatantly separated into two parts: sixteen songs, eight to a side. Side As […]
If the Velvet Underground’s short-lived 1993 reunion was a noble failure, and the recent Pixies reformation was a crass cash-in, and the Stooges’ 2003 blitzkrieg fucking rocked, dude, where does that leave American Music Club, originally extant from 1983-95 (output: […]
Richard Buckner’s finest albums, 1997’s Devotion + Doubt and its 1998 follow-up Since, arose from similar circumstances: He holed up alone to write the songs, then immersed himself with musicians from a particular local scene to record them. The pattern […]
Nashville collective Lambchop are no stranger to difficult concept albums. Their much-admired 2000 release Nixon, near as anyone can tell, wasn’t actually about Nixon, and their latest, the heavily instrumental pair of simultaneously released albums Aw Cmon and No You […]
Eric Bachmann, who led North Carolina indie-rockers Archers Of Loaf throughout the ’90s, took a turn from insouciant noise-pop to melancholy when he initiated Crooked Fingers in 2000. Red Devil Dawn, the third Crooked Fingers album, continues that mode — […]
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