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Kristin Hersh reviewed
Kristin Hersh Learn To Sing Like A Star (Yep Roc) Where do broken voices go? Can they find the way home?
Rich Schroder reviewed
Rich Schroder Your Kind Words (Anova) Something about Rich Schroder’s Your Kind Words needs fixing. More color maybe? Lyrically he’s, if not an ace, then above average (such exalted praise, sorry). But he’s playing the wrong style of music. Except for the goofy “(Sorry That I’m Not) The Home Depot Type,” where he details domestic […]
Glenn Jones reviewed
Glenn Jones Against Which The Sea Continually Beats (Strange Attractors) A recurring theme throughout Glenn Jones’ life is acoustic-guitar architect John Fahey, who reigns supreme on Against Which The Sea Continually Beats.
She’s Spanish, I’m American Reviewed
She’s Spanish, I’m American She’s Spanish, I’m American (Bedroom Classics) Stupid moniker in tow, Josh Rouse’s side project drags bilingual girlfriend Paz Suay into a lite rock splash befitting its lighthearted title.
The Early Years Reviewed
The Early Years The Early Years (Beggars Banquet) With a built-in title for a debut album, the name of this London-based trio could reference a number of things: 1) a preemptive apology for soft spots in their songs, 2) a reference to what the band members were listening to at formative ages, or 3) a […]
The Photo Atlas Reviewed
The Photo Atlas No, Not Me, Never (Stolen Transmission/Morning After) There’s a lot of apologizing going on around The Photo Atlas’ debut. First, you didn’t know about it ’til now because it was cultivated in a cultural vacuum called Denver. Secondly, yeah, it’s dance punk, but you can actually dance to it.
2 Bit Pie Reviewed
2 Bit Pie 2 Pie Island (One Little Indian) Masterminded by Fluke’s Mike Bryant and Jon Fugler and producer Andy Gray, 2 Bit Pie give the No Limit crew a run for their guest-spot money on this techno debut.
Hella Weird
Hella There’s No 666 In Outer Space (Ipecac) Time is not a factor for Sacramento duo-now-quintet Hella. There’s No 666 In Outer Space has an hour to state its case, but still machine-guns as many notes, time signatures, and beats as humanly possible.
Rafter reviewed
Rafter Music For Total Chickens (Asthmatic Kitty) The cover image for this album appears to be a chicken egg exploding in mid-air, an adequate description of how your head will feel upon listening to it.
Jeff Tuohy reviewed
Jeff Tuohy Breaking Down The Silence (self-released) This New York-based singer-songwriter dodges the sort of vacant hipster tags that plague his Big Apple contemporaries, rising out of the frat-rock scene. Appearing: January 27th at Joe’s in Chicago.
Urban Legend reviewed
Urban Legend Of Old Lost Days (Contraphonic) Seizing upon the recent, albeit minor success of The Thermals, Contraphonic releases some demos to illustrate what could have been for Sub Pop’s resident malcontents.
The Head Set Reviewed
The Head Set Way Past Used (Businessman Businessman) Economical guitar work, the occasional bowed instrument, and crashing drums turn vocalist Jordan Blaugrund into a stumbling, impassioned drunk on The Head Set’s debut.
Asteroid No. 4 reviewed
The Asteroid No.4 An Amazing Dream (Rainbow Quartz) Veterans of the Psychedelphia scene in the City Of Brotherly Love, The Asteroid No. 4 return to their reverby fetish and drop out of the space/time continuum somewhere on the ’80s road to Britpop.
Shitake Monkey Reviewed
Shitake Monkey Street Beef (Outlook) Shitake Monkey wonder halfway through their debut, “We wanna know if you can go hard/’cuz for the Monkey it ain’t never been hard.” That last bit is misleading because Street Beef spends its entire time barely concealing its boner.
Janet Jackson Reviewed
Janet Jackson 20 Y.O. (Virgin) What is “Janet Jackson” after nipplegate? Because there was an album directly following the incident (Damita Jo) and permanent suspicions as to her designs, people will look to 20 Y.O. for answers, a confession, something.
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