The Fresh & Onlys talk Loneliness and Love
With their new album Long Slow Dance, the fourth studio album in just as many years, The Fresh and Onlys embark on a lo-fi love experience of forlorn and unrequited love. The sound is stripped of the deep resonance More...
The Mountain Goats: Transcendental Youth
The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth (Merge Records) The Mountain Goats create deeply unsettling, personal music. Listening to an album is delving into a world of sympathy for the socially-tarnished, the More...
James Yorkston: I Was A Cat From A Book
James Yorkston I Was A Cat From A Book (Domino Recording Co.) The first noticeable thing about Yorkston’s seventh album is that his vocals are very quiet. Quiet to match the jazz drum scrapping, ethereal More...
Baroness: Yellow & Green
Baroness Yellow & Green (Relapse) Baroness keeps their heavy metal guitar sound and adds the more carefully plotted-out harmonies of actual singing. Guttural singing, a staple of metal, is sometimes essential; More...
John Frusciante: PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone
John Frusciante PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone (Record Collection) Don’t expect anything from John Frusciante that makes sense on PBX. This former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitar virtuoso could say something with More...
Safety Not Guaranteed Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Various Artists
Safety Not Guaranteed Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Various Artists (Abko Music & Records, Inc.) Full disclosure: I was really looking forward to this movie, and didn’t sit down to write the review More...
Gabby Young and Other Animals: The Band Called Out For More
Gabby Young & Other Animals The Band Called Out for More (Gift of the Gab Records) On The Band Called Out for More (henceforth TBCO, because it’s a long title and a long band name; two for two Gabby Young More...
Matthew Dear: Beams
Matthew Dear Beams (Ghostly International) “Fighting is Futile” promises and implores the listener to “take a trip on something else.” As with Matthew Dear’s previously releases, Beams More...
Nelly Furtado: The Spirit Indestructible
Nelly Furtado The Spirit Indestructible (Interscope) Oh, Nelly Furtado. The expectations that were created after Loose, a phenomenal album that matched Timbaland production with Spanish flavor and international More...
WHY?: Mumps, Etc.
WHY? Mumps, Etc. (Anticon) Jonathan “Yoni” Wolf has intimated that Mumps, Etc. has some deeply personal songs, and the best lines on the album are self aware. While “Strawberries” has More...
