Dec 21, 2000 Music Light From Many Lamps by Caul (Review) There’s a great sense of intimacy and warmth here, which sounds odd compared with the often bleak and frightening sounds Caul uses.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Pygmalion by Slowdive (Review) This was Slowdive’s swan song, and a gorgeous one at that.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Souvlaki by Slowdive (Review) Souvlaki is Slowdive’s best collective effort, funneling the atmospherics of their previous efforts into a more cohesive package.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Just for a Day by Slowdive (Review) My first introduction to Slowdive, and an album that left such an impact on me that I still compare new albums to it today.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Reliquary by Caul (Review) Evokes scenes of long-abandoned cathedrals in the wasteland, Christian ceremonies carried out in the catacombs, black-robed monks carrying out their sacred duties.
Dec 20, 2000 Music Style for Life EP by Junior Varsity KM (Review) I’d like to take this album on a long drive through the country with the top down, and just soaking up the spring.
Dec 20, 2000 Music The Cycle of Days and Seasons by Hood (Review) I say that I’m frustrated by this album because it’s very easy for me to dismiss it, when a part of me knows I should be enraptured by it.
Dec 20, 2000 Music Baby Labyrinthian by Lucid (Review) What Lucid is able to do in the 75 minutes of this CD is create some of most interesting experimental ambience I’ve ever heard.
Dec 20, 2000 Music Idylls and the Secret Remain by Lucid (Review) I don’t know where these people get their inspiration or opus, but I just hope they keep creating works of art like this one.
Dec 20, 2000 Music Gold by Starflyer 59 (Review) Suffice it to say, Gold was one of the best Christian releases of 1995.
Dec 10, 2000 Music Us by Peter Gabriel (Review) Few records made in the ’90s can get this or more emotional.
Dec 10, 2000 Music Gun Hill Road by Infesticons (Review) This is real hip-hop, black science fiction in the tradition of Parliament/Funkadelic and Sun Ra.
Dec 10, 2000 Music The Shape of Punk to Come by The Refused (Review) Punk rock would still be interesting if it sounded more like these guys.
Dec 10, 2000 Music The Violence of Sound by Killingtheoldman (Review) This falls into the “goth” and “industrial” categories but does so while circumventing many of those genres’ pitfalls.
Dec 10, 2000 Music Down With the Scene by Kid 606 (Review) The 21-year-old Kid turns in some pretty fine Autechre/Aphex Twin-style glitch techno.
Dec 10, 2000 Music Come On Die Young by Mogwai (Review) Picks right up where their ferocious debut, 1997’s Young Team, left off.
Dec 10, 2000 Music Sweet Tip by Insides (Review) It’s still Insides… so it’s not all bad. It’s not great either.