Monthly Archives: February 2010 »
Eluvium: Similes
Eluvium Similes Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Temporary Residence Limited An expert on atmosphere under the moniker Eluvium, Matt Cooper has raised his abilities in the sphere of ambient music to very lofty heights. His 2007
Read More »Angelo Spencer: Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets
Angelo Spencer Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: K Records French-born one man band Angelo Spencer’s debut album, Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets, is an exercise in cluttered brevity. Clocking
Read More »Last Spin: Traveling Wilburys: Vol. 1 and Vol. 3
Last Spin: Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 and Vol. 3 1988 and 1990 We all know that tastes change. Last Spin is a series in which our writers give a final listen to and offer
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Shearwater: The Golden Archipelago
Shearwater The Golden Archipelago Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Matador Founded by Okkervil River’s Jonathan Meiburg and Will Sheff, Shearwater moved out of the shadow of its cousin band over the course of the ’00s and
Read More »The Soft Pack: The Soft Pack
The Soft Pack The Soft Pack Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Kemado Mired in the socio-political controversy that surrounded their perhaps short-sighted choice of band name, the Muslims became the Soft Pack in late-2008. It was
Read More »Revisit: Swimming to Cambodia
Revisit: Swimming to Cambodia Dir: Jonathan Demme 85 Minutes Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. Spalding Gray walks onstage, sits at the desk, takes a
Read More »Eyes Wide Open
Eyes Wide Open Dir: Haim Tabakman Rating: 4.5/5.0 New American Vision 90 Minutes Director Haim Tabakman’s full-length feature debut, Eyes Wide Open, is nothing short of the first sign of an incredible filmmaker. An
Read More »Concert Review: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone/Key Losers/Tragos Amargos
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, the one-man, lo-fi project of Owen Ashworth, is best enjoyed with intimate knowledge of the following: bedsits, doomed semi-romances, pop culture obsession and of course, loneliness. Cardigans are encouraged,
Read More »Adam Green: Minor Love
Adam Green Minor Love Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Fat Possum Juno gifted its audiences with so many endearing images, from the plucky heroine broadcasting the news of her pregnancy via hamburger phone to the sweatband-clad
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Toro y Moi: Causers of This
Toro y Moi Causers of This Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Carpark Records If this whole chillwave/glo-fi/dreambeat thing taught us anything, it’s that effervescent pop music can come from little more than a few synthesizers and
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