Savages: Adore Life Adore Life is a considerable improvement, an honest attempt by Savages to set themselves apart. Read More
Majical Cloudz: Are You Alone? The key to what makes Majical Cloudz tick has always been Devon Welsh. Read More
Yo La Tengo: Stuff Like That There A covers album is only as good as the material the band is performing and Yo La Tengo has chosen a great collection of tunes. Read More
Ceremony: The L-Shaped Man Ceremony didn’t just try to fix what wasn’t broken, they set it on fire. Read More
Belle and Sebastian: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance [xrr rating=4.0/5]Already it’s easy to tell that Belle and Sebastian’s latest record, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, will be remembered as their “dance album,” an outlier in a discography rife with low-key acoustic chamber pop and twee indie rock classics. Yes, the band makes a remarkable transformation on the album, trading their delicate folk stylings for heady synthesizers, plucky … Read More
Thurston Moore: The Best Day [xrr rating=4.5/5]In the beginning was not the word, but a drone: a tone to form the backdrop for all the sounds that followed. Some of those later voices may vie for attention, assert their individuality against the cosmic hum, but eventually they surrender and rejoin its embrace. The Best Day is a celebration of that drone and the rich textures … Read More
Iceage: Plowing Into the Field of Love [xrr rating=4.5/5]Birthed by Copenhagen punk scenes that had yet to see large-scale export, Iceage came into this world in a manner none done proper justice by the idiom “kicking and screaming.” They seethed, picked fights and gnashed their teeth so effectively that basically overnight they’d convinced the internet they were the most legitimate thing to bear the handle “punk” in … Read More
Chet Baker: (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You/Chet Baker in New York/Chet/Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe-review
Chet Baker: (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You/Chet Baker in New York/Chet/Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe-review