Score: 10/10 . Cloud Nothings have more balls than Real Estate. This, of course, seems obvious, given the components of the situation. After all, they play music that is LOUDER. They always have, and always will. So while I stand by this statement, let me temper it with the following observation: Cloud Nothings on Life […]
Score: 4 stars/5 . “Maybe We’ll Drown,” the only track currently available from Menace Beach’s upcoming album Lemon Memory, opens with a repeated quarter-note stab at a mellowly amplified electric guitar, done over and over on the same chord. It sounds like something your little seven year old niece or nephew could do. Well, yeah, […]
Score: 6/10 . Teenage Fanclub has always scared me a little bit. No, they don’t wear masks and wield machetes at my face, no, they don’t even make loud music or exhibit aggressive behavior. I guess it’s just their level of FEELING — things which creep on you listening to an album like the atom-splitting […]
Score: 7.5/10 . As the press release for Strange Storm indicates, the album “explores (various) themes,” political themes, to be exact, and as we all know, this can be somewhat of a froggy situation. Music is obviously not discursive, in other words, it’s physical, so when I hear these claims of thematic treatment in it […]
Score: 6.5/10 . Ah, New York. The land of John Cage, the land of recent film While We’re Young and “facebook experiments.” This is from where we get the reinventions: this is where we get expression which scoffs at the notion of “product,” and has everything to do, typically, with ripe, contemporary human innovation. “Tiled […]
Score: 8.5/10 . Jesus, googling and finding an article you read about Led Zeppelin is fu**ing impossible. But the upside is, you find a bunch of new cool articles in attempting to do so. They’ll pop up taking various forms, always utilizing that handsome craft of the Zoso symbols logo, or that old, un-envisaged man […]
Score: 7.5/10 . Eventually, I guess trumpet players just get used to playing second mason, and the title of the first song “No More Drama” should give you an idea of Mac Gollehon’s personality, or disposition, at work here. In this age of emcees, when we often get a laundry list of people’s personal problems […]