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Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:27:33
Something happened to Nick Cave last year with the release of his side-project Grinderman. Maybe he's in a better mood, now that he's exonerated those pussy blues he had, because Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! is easily his most accessible work in a long time, if not forever. You can almost see a Lou Reed ...more
Lucky
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:26:36
Nada Surf continue to strive for indie-pop perfection on Lucky, their fifth studio album, but largely wind up staying the course of their recent albums. The New York trio has had a strange career trajectory thus far, progressing from a major label buzz band with a hit single (1996's "Popular") to a ...more
Pocketful of Sunshine
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:38:10
Call it Bedingfield 2.5. Pocketful of Sunshine is the second U.S. release by the Londoner whose career is part Fergie, part Amy Grant, but nearly half the songs appeared on her sophomore English release, N.B. "I Wanna Have Your Babies," the gloriously bubbly and weird single from that record, is ...more
Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D (CD/DVD)
Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:06:34
Trent Reznor's notoriously thorny relationship with his record label (and its adherence to copyright law) killed the original idea behind Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D (or, for non-l33t speakers, Year Zero Remixed), which was to have a website where fans could create and post their own remixes of Reznor's work. ...more
Chrome Dreams II
Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:16:37
The original Chrome Dreams wound up on Neil Young's scrap heap, an album relegated to cult classic status and bootlegger wishlists due to Young's whims changing before the album could hit stores. The connection between there and here, 2007's sequel-sounding Chrome Dreams II, is a tenuous one. In ...more
Somewhere, Anywhere
Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:22:11
Sally Seltmann has the sort of cool, even voice that communicates maximum emotion with minimum effort; it's a common trait among Seltmann's indie-folk contemporaries, but the girl who goes by New Buffalo inhabits it better than most. Close-mic'd and occasionally double-tracked, the Australian ...more
Challengers
Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:43:42
It still seems strange that The New Pornographers are more than one album
into their career. 2000's Mass Romantic was so of its moment—a Canadian
supergroup (a supposely one-off project of A.C. Newman, Neko Case and
Destroyer's Dan Bejar) that took a mad scientist's approach to the ...more
Fantastic Playroom
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:40:13
True pop songs are confections—sweet, brief indulgences that come in shiny wrappers. A truly delectable one is anything but disposable, and a truly satisfying box of 'em is all too rare a treat. On Fantastic Playroom, New Young Pony Club deliver just that.
Contrary to the hype, the British ...more
Shed
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:18:14
Not much is known about Need More Sources' Chris Stewart, which is just fine. On his debut album Shed, Stewart makes music that stands at the intersection of folk, electronica and avant-garde classical—bedroom symphonies in which synths, strings, piano, acoustic guitar and percussion blur into ...more
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