Bite Sized Review: Liars – Sisterworld
Popular music reporting sources everywhere seem to love Liars and their newest, Sisterworld. I am not one of these people. This is not a situation where I don’t “get” their experimental sound, it’s a...
View ArticleBite Sized Review: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – The Brutalist Bricks
I really want to like Ted Leo. I’ve enjoyed his live shows and blasted a track or two in my day, but I think he is best enjoyed by High School males, and I don’t fall into either category. His vocals...
View ArticleBite-Sized Review: Aloha – Home Acres
With a few of their East Coast roots tied to Cleveland, Aloha are over 10 years into their career. There’s an ethereal, unstoppably catchy mildness to Home Acres, their jazzed sixth album that both...
View ArticleBite-Sized Review: Rogue Wave – Permalight
I gave up on Rogue Wave after 2007′s Asleep At Heaven’s Gate, which I felt was a huge let down. I haven’t read many positive reviews of Permalight, but I surprisingly enjoyed it’s sunny, light...
View ArticleBite-Sized Review: Ruby Suns – Fight Softly
Globe-trotter Ryan McPhun brings international influence to his hectic, electric tracks under the Ruby Suns. Moments of beauty and fun shine out from underneath a mess of of computer enhanced noise....
View ArticleBite-Sized Review: Caribou – Swim
Dan Snaith is the mind behind Caribou, an electro outfit based in Canada. With the help of Junior Boys’ Jeremy Greenspan, Swim manages to pull out some dance-worthy experimental tracks that either...
View ArticleBite-Sized Review: Kaki King – Juniors
Atlanta’s Kaki King is five studio albums into her career with Juniors, and I can’t get enough of her guitar-slinging shoegaze. With vocals that match Laura Veirs and songwriting you can believe in,...
View ArticleBite-Sized Review: The New Pornographers – Together
Horns! Strings! Keys! Guitars! Guests! Such joyful spurts of noise litter Together, number five from TNP. It’s not Twin Cinema, but Newman/Case/Bejar still know how to write incredibly distinctive and...
View ArticleBite-Sized Review: Sufjan Stevens – All Delighted People
Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People EP Asthmatic Kitty buy Sufjan is back baby. Give up your grieving for the folksy and creative 50 states project and welcome with open arms the experimental and...
View ArticleBite-Sized Review: Azure Ray – Drawing Down The Moon
Azure Ray Drawing Down The moon EP Saddle Creek buy With a hot 4.6 rating, Drawing Down The Moon from Omaha’s dream pop duo Azure Ray sits comfortable in my top 20 of the year so far – which should...
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