Score: 3/10 Louder than Sound describes Wilderness of Mirrors as “the perfect soundtrack for the end of the world,” which is ironic, seeing as Alex Maas seems to take every opportunity possible to get all lovey-dovey with the kind of nauseating lack of self-consciousness only a Southern good-ol’-boy could probably muster. They claim that the … Read more“DD Review: The Black Angels – Wilderness of Mirrors.”
Score: 10/10 Here comes that new Jack White album, like a gossamer in the corner of your eye you dread for its certainty to distract you from your surrogate dog-like idee fixee to which you otherwise would be clinging. Remember folks, he dated Renee Zelwegger. That oughta make you feel better. There’s also the fact … Read more“DD Review: Jack White – Entering Heaven Alive.”
Score: 8.5/10 This is kind of a case of cordiality born out of an axe to grind, I have to admit. I’d been on the covert mission of exposing Sub Pop as an artistically vacuous enterprise, completely ready to write them off (and do so of all recorded music, in the process), when I came … Read more“DD Review: Weird Nightmare – Weird Nightmare.”
Score: 3/10 LABYRINTHITIS certainly wakes on a pretty daze, I’ve gotta admit. The first track is this seven-minute, watery, translucent groove that seems just singularly tranquil and sublime, “It’s in Your Heart Now,” toting with it a multiplicity of synthesizer that gives the song a certain texture and musical depth. The problems start to arrive, … Read more“DD Review: Destroyer – LABYRINTHITIS.”
Score: 8/10 Midlake happens to be a band holding a somewhat special place in my heart, the reason being that I discovered them at one of those old CD listening stations in a thing called a “record store,” formerly a significant entity on ides other than “Record Store Day.” The album was The Trials of … Read more“DD Review: Midlake – For the Sake of Bethel Woods.”
Score: 8/10 Don’t do online research on anything. That’s my advice to you. Can you have a cookout? Do you have a grill? Do you have a badminton net, He**, a frisbee? The weather’s getting nicer. Simplify. Breathe. Gyrate. And listen to this fu**ing album because it’s the best jam rock album since Umphrey’s McGee … Read more“DD Review: Circles around the Sun – Live at the Charleston Pour House 11/12/21.”
Score: 7.5/10 Michael Lane is your new soft rock radio, crooning out majestic, tranquil but aching songs drawing stylistic influence from Mumford & Sons and Bon Iver but always filling the mixes with an anatomical swagger of originality. Lyrically, he does a nice job of shifting topic too, letting existential philosophy and second-person rancor team … Read more“DD Review: Michael Lane – Take it Slow.”
Score: 7/10 “Sea” is a funny word. This is especially true in the case of us Americans, who, as far as I know, don’t have access to anything officially classified as a “sea” anywhere on our contiguous landscape. The very mention of the term, too, seems to imply something grandiose and dramatic, such as mentions … Read more“DD Review: Sea Power – Everything Was Forever.”
Score: 10/10 .. * “You’re short on long-term goals There’s a party there that we oughta go to If you still love rock and roll” – Wilco .. There’s one thing of standing up, doing it and being THAT GUY. There’s another thing of standing up, doing it, being that guy but being YOURSELF in … Read more“DD Review: Spoon – Lucifer on the Sofa.”
Score: 8/10 Korn is still rocking albums out and you know what? You get down with your bad, funky self, Korn. You got a lot of us through some seriously sexually frustrated days in the late ’90s and for that we are eternally grateful. It’s pretty much always a spirited occasion hearing from you. I … Read more“DD Review: Korn – Requiem.”