Music Reviews tagged with indie-rock
Cryptacize Mythomania
Ex-Deerhoof guitarist Chris Cohen experiments with the generic and makes something generic.
Sean Caldwell continues his search for the name brand...
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...
Pink Mountaintops Outside Love
Danielle “Lap” Steel: Black Mountain frontman Stephen McBean’s attempt at the not-so-romance novel.
Sean Caldwell pages through...
The Thermals Now We Can See
As the Thermals continue wiggling their way from the stylistic confines of punk, they seem to be closing their mitts all the more firmly around its spiritual core. Now We Can See is a power pop record about vision, death, disease, perspective, and, er, turning into a fish (?) but its great expressive anchor is the elated desperation that gives punk both its wickedness and its promise.
Tom Whalen starts shedding his arms...
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
Perhaps they're giving their critics too much amo by naming themselves after two complete catastophes. The album itself, though, is not so much a disaster as it is an entertaining mess.
Ryan Faughnder tries not to blow up on...
Vivian Girls Vivian Girls
A record that was overlooked by us in 2008, and wrongfully so.
Brett Oronzio reviews...
Little Joy Little Joy
It's official. I don't care if The Strokes ever put out another album.
Brett Oronzio reviews...
Andrew Bird Noble Beast
Does Bird's latest stand up to last year's fantastic Armchair Apocrypha?
Kevin Walker soldiers on...
White Lies To Lose My Life...
Could White Lies be the best British guitar band since, er, Bloc Party.
David Coleman confronts the first hyped UK release of 2009...
The Muslims The Muslims
What's in a name? Don't worry about it; pay more attention to the music.
Kevin Walker reviews a record (not Islamists)...
