Spins
Eternally Yours
The Eternals High Anxiety EP (Aesthetics) Having gone their first two albums with an asterick overemphasizing their Trenchmouth lineage, Chicago’s Eternals let outsiders remix them and break the separations game wide open.
Float On
Anathallo Floating World (Nettwerk) Unsettling near-Sufjan Stevens, anti-showtunes grandeur hides in corners only to be drawn out via uplifting instrumentals.
Flag Bare
Anti-Flag For Blood & Empire (RCA) Taking cues from Green Day’s wildly successful American Idiot, supposed “important” punks Anti-Flag get the sloganeering machines firing.
May we holler at you?
Frog Holler Haywire (ZoBird) Somewhere in the boonies, outside Philadelphia, Frog Holler lurk with Americana reshapen for Dutch Country living.
Come To España!
Spain Colored Orange Hopelessly Incapable Of Standing In The Way EP (Lucid) Well now’s the time to be a Cuban jazz fan and in an indie rock band.
Playing The Field
Field Music Field Music (Memphis Industries) Apparently there’s only 10 or so musicians in Sunderland, England, and they’re in either The Futureheads, Maximo Park, or Field Music here. Sometimes more than one.
The Elected CD Review
The Elected Sun, Sun, Sun (Sub Pop) Rilo Kiley’s other side project doesn’t have the “indie tart stepping into the world on her own” angle. On its second album, The Elected preaches more from the gospel according to the West Coast.
Essential George
George Benson/George Duke The Essential George Benson/The Essential George Duke (Columbia/Legacy) Columbia/Legacy’s “Essential” series has been taking the easy way out lately, instead of distilling the essence, hard choices are not made and two-disc sets have become the norm. A pair of Georges, jazz great Benson and lite-funk pioneer Duke, test the new boundaries.
The Slackers CD Review
The Slackers Peculiar (Hellcat) Admittedly, we’re suckers for album titles that fit, be they unintentional (Ashlee Simpson’s Who I Am) or spot-on (this here Slackers album).
Edie Sedgwick CD Review
Edie Sedgwick Her Love Is Real . . . But She Is Not (DeSoto) Drag queen Edie Sedgwick looks nothing like the tragic, New York tart whose name he/she takes, and sounds even less like anything else.
The Soda Pop Kids CD Review
The Soda Pop Kids Write Home (Full Breach Kicks) Chicago label’s latest offering is a relocated Portland-via-Denver proto punk incarnate. And you thought they only made this stuff in L.A. nowadays.
The Spirit That Guides Us CD Review
The Spirit That Guides Us North And South (Goodfellow) Is the world ready for a Dutch, nu-emo/indie rock hybrid? The Spirit That Guides Us deeply hope they’re them.
Forever Young
Young People All At Once (Too Pure) Young People’s Too Pure debut is not only an assault on the disposable disco punk culture growing stale in New York, but also one on patience.
Mr. Gnome CD Review
Mr. Gnome Echoes On The Ground (Mr. Gnome) Cleveland rocks, albeit angrily and vindictively.
Nearly CD Review
Nearly Reminder (Kufala) Frequent Trent Reznor accomplice Jerome Dillon shows up as Nearly, a less-industrial but still synth-friendly mood monger with guests including Claudia Sarne and Greg Dulli.
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