Fever Ray : S/T :: Review
Karen Dreijer Andersson of The Knife is Fever Ray. Fever Ray is the name of the side project, album, and somewhat describes the music contained within. Fever Ray’s self-titled album could best be described...
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Animal Collective : Merriweather Post Pavillion :: Review
The almost perfect score for Animal Collective’s ‘Merriweather Post Pavillion’ album on Pitchfork bothered me with its embarrassing masturbatory excess. It’s not that Animal Collective ever struck a nerve with me nor did they...
M. Ward : Hold Time :: Review
M. Ward is a man trapped in time, stuck in the Oughts but enamored of the music from long ago. Strikingly spare, most M. Ward recordings have a lo-fi grime about them that does...
Bon Iver : Blood Bank :: Review
Consider this review the first of the inevitable Bon Iver backlash. Bon Iver (Justin Vernon) had a fine debut last year but he has taken that sound, watered it down for mass consumption and...
Glasvegas : S/T :: Review
The debut album by Scottish band Glasvegas is by no means a small and meager undertaking. Glasvegas have taken equal parts of My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Phil Spector’s wall...
Andrew Bird : Noble Beast :: Review
With all of the leaks (intentional and Youtube) of material from ‘Noble Beast’ you might have assumed that the album had been released prior to January 20, 2008. Bird has a right to be...
Daniel Martin Moore : Stray Age :: Review
‘Stray Age’ is the superb debut folk album from Cold Spring, Kentucky native Daniel Martin Moore. Previously an unknown, Moore solicited his demo to Sub Pop and based on its merits earned himself a...
A.C. Newman : Get Guilty :: Review
‘Get Guilty’ is the new album from Allan Carl Newman, front man of The New Pornographers and a myriad of other indie rock bands. ‘Get Guilty’ is a densely layered and aggressively poppy album...
Neil Young : Live At Canterbury House 1968 : Review
Forty years after its initial recording, ‘Sugar Mountain – Live At Canterbury House 1968’ gets an official release. The performance achieved notoriety because of the single version of “Sugar Mountain” which appeared first as...
Bruce Springsteen : Working On A Dream :: Review
Bruce Springsteen is cooking up some new songs for a new album in January. The first single, “Working On A Dream” should appeal to his audience and not many others. “Working On A Dream”...
