Album Review: Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel – The Rarity of Experience
Chris Forsyth and The Solar Motel's The Rarity of Experience has a lot of nice guitar work and expansive jamming. For those into psych rock you'll dig it.
Album Reviews
Is The Joy Formidable’s Hitch the Death of Modern Shoegaze?
The Joy Formidable stripped away their fancy layers to give us what we fell in love with on Hitch, but were they that special in the first place.
Charli XCX Gets Hard on the Vroom Vroom EP
Charli XCX goes into an exciting creative direction on Vroom Vroom, but she is trying to create a hard-edged persona for herrself out of thin air.
Wolfmother: The Greatest Single Threat to our Liberty
Wolfmother’s Victorious will diminish all sense of self, annihilate common sense, and weaken your resolve against the imbeciles that threaten to control us.
Album Review: Bob Mould – Patch The Sky
Bob Mould's Patch The Sky is a fantastic record made up of sophisticated alternative rock song writing, that never sinks into the dreaded "Dad Rock".
Album Review: The Body – No One Deserves Happiness
The Body's No One Deserves Happiness gets my stamp of approval for barely being safe for human consumption. However, this album is not puppy-approved.
Album Review: Hands Like Houses – Dissonants
People will definitely like Dissonants and that is cool, but I feel like people should be getting a much better effort from Hands Like Houses.
Album Review: Damien Jurado – Visions of Us on The Land
Going from a spectral folk singer to psychedelic troubadour doesn’t work, and that is clearly what Damien Jurado has done on Visions of Us On The Land.
Album Review: Heiress – Made Wrong
Made Wrong is a step forward from territories that Heiress have already been in and mastered. I'm guessing this step will keep the creative juices flowing.
Album Review: Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression
If Post Pop Depression is Iggy Pop's final record his rant that closes "Paraguay" is a satisfying bookend as one of the most interesting characters in rock.