Score: 6/10 . I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised, or astonished — whatever word you want to use. After all, Sub Pop Records has always, since day one, forged their own identity with the basis in mind of image-eschewing — of attempting to appear something very much other than what they truly are. They’ve […]
Score: 10/10 . Oh Cigarettes after Sex… y’all just go and be disarming with yo bad funky selves! I shouldn’t have expected anything else. It’s been a crazy year here at Dolby Disaster, as very soon following the bevy of reviews I half-wittingly threw together in early May, I found one of my idols, Chris […]
Score: 1/10 . Always in any analysis of anything, there’s the tendency to want to look at the thing paradigmatically — to examine not only the given subject’s facets, but also how these facets might conjeal into postulating a larger truth about nations, about humanity or psychology in general. But many things, too, are necessary […]
Score: 9/10 . For the answers to some questions I have for bands, I don’t even need an interview. This Black Angels project is the perfect case in point — an album by a band clearly influenced by Lou Reed’s notorious entourage and pointing with final explicitness to the exact song which inspired their name, […]
Score: 8/10 . It’s been decided that Hazel English is good. This is a fortunate fact in some rights, since she indeed is good. Still, the whole thing is a bit irksome to me, in some regards. For instance: throughout the whole blurb and interview on blog.urbanoutfitters.com, a blurb which is entitled “About a Band,” […]
Score: 5 stars/5 . I must confess a fairly amateur knowledge of the man who brought us the great hazy, smooth radio single “Waves” early on in 2013, right around the time of another Dolby favorite Born Ruffians – Birthmarks. Sure, I follow Mr. Mr. Probz on facebook, but his shares tend to be more […]
Score: 5/10 . I’m writing this review with one hand. My other hand is extended out my apartment window, with a nagging finger waving displeasedly at A.C. Newman for not putting out a solo album this year. Freakin’ supergroups, commissioning and commandeering untoward fame, as ever. But then, it’s not always that you can get […]
Score: 10/10 . There’s this one portion of the song “Freaks” that to me just sums up the ‘90s perfectly. It’s toward the end — it’s the astonishing discipline these bands had when putting songs together structurally, the ebbs and flows, everything in multiples of four but with more than enough feeling to make up […]