Articles tagged with experimental

Offend Maggie

Sean Caldwell — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:52:07 +0000

Buck and Judy, third song from Deerhoof’s latest opus, Offend Maggie, has been pounding around my head for days. The trumpet-sounding riff that follows the song’s simplistic stomp-stomp-beat/stomp-stomp-beat, overtop the swirling keys and sporadic waves of sonic disarray just clings to the frontal lobe. The music itself speaks of colossal revelation or discovery, maybe a journey’s end or some other milestone or life event. Here the song merely questions the identity of a sweet fruit. I’m sure it’s less literal

My Bloody Underground

Sean Caldwell — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:01:02 +0000

I love it when bands shoot themselves in their collective feet with accusatory or judgmental song titles that could easily be applied to their own albums and/or states of creative being. In the case of Anton Newcombe, the extraordinarily dysfunctional head of neo-psych band, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, he asks us,"Who Fucking Pissed In My Well?"

Anton, honestly, it was probably you.

Courtcase 2000

Japie Stoppelenburg — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:11:36 +0000

It must’ve been around noon. The sun had already risen high, though its beams were having difficulties reaching our little fourth floor balcony. We (me, best friend and best friend’s boyfriend) were sitting outside, half-dressed, enjoying the mildly pleasant mid-August weather. While we were desperately clinging onto a cup of coffee, hoping it would swiftly erase the memory of sleep, and while we puffed away nearly a pack of Gauloises Blondes, we talked about music.

Music Tapes For Clouds and Tornadoes

Matt Montgomery — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:47:34 +0000

It's been over nine years since the first Music Tapes record was released; 1999's First Imaginary Symphony For Nomad, an eclectic, lo-fi indie pop record turned heads with its experimental ways. Fast-forward to now.

Pyramids

Alan Garner — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:22:50 +0000

Pyramids’ début album, released this year on Hydra Head, is one of the most singularly unnerving, majestic, difficult and confusing records you are likely to hear for some time. Like crawling down Dante’s concentric circles, it is noise without release, structure without form, a void without relinquishment.

Quaristice

Iain Moffat — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:15:22 +0000

Warp Records may not have lost its status as a guarantee of quality, but the stylistic guarantees that used to come with the label are arguably the stuff of history these days. After all, their biggest commercial success has come via some jittery post-punk, while the rosiest critical spoils have gone to some lunatic math-jazz, and two of the stable's finest hopes are channelling performers as diverse as Stevie Wonder and My Bloody Valentine.

Strawberry Jam

David Coleman — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:38:31 +0000

Just when you thought 2007 was going well in terms of new music, two of the decade's defining bands drop new albums and turn the whole year on its head. I'm talking about Animal Collective and Liars. These two experimental rock behemoths have chartered unique and fascinating courses through the 00s and are surely two of the most accomplished bands operating today. Curiously, coincidentally, if the critical consensus is to be trusted, they've both just released their big 'pop' records within one month of another.