Music Reviews tagged with indie-pop
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Higher Than the Stars EP
Nearly eight months after their debut, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart return with an EP of new material that sounds increasingly out of date.
Ryan Pratt discovers that Saint Etienne can make anything sound awesome...
The Postmarks Memoirs at the End of the World
Indie pop Floridians give film composers a run for their money with their vastly orchestrated second full length of original material.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez re-imagines his favorite film scores in his head...
The Embassy Tacking
The Embassy's Futile Crimes helped to launch the Gothenburg Balearic pop scene. 2006's Tacking, which was almost as good, is now finally available in the UK.
David Coleman digs in...
The Wooden Birds Magnolia
American Analog Set's Andrew Kenny returns with a new album and a new band, The Wooden Birds.
Nick Fenn reviews...
Julie Doiron I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
And we can wonder if Doiron will go the path of sadcore folk guitarist or of fully realized indie band (hint: pick the second one!).
Andy Pareti feels like he's watching Juno again...
Pomegranates Everybody, Come Outside!
Someone must be passing around cds of the Indestructible Beat of Soweto, Vol. 1, and these guys must have burnt their copy from Vampire Weekend. And why not?
Alan Shulman reviews...
The Boy Least Likely To The Law of the Playground
The Boy Least Likely To refuse to grow up and go back to the schoolyard on their second album, The Law of the Playground.
Joe Rivers reviews...
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
From out of the wreckage of late 80's and early 90's influences emerges a modern pop gem.
Brett Oronzio reviews...
Architecture in Helsinki That Beep
On its new EP, That Beep, Architecture in Helsinki offer up one solid electropop dance track, accompanied by three lackluster remixes.
Andy Stewart reviews...
Little Joy Little Joy
It's official. I don't care if The Strokes ever put out another album.
Brett Oronzio reviews...
