Feb 28, 2004 Music Ghosts of the Great Highway by Sun Kil Moon (Review) The album’s most affecting moments are certainly its most languid and leisurely.
Feb 27, 2004 Pop Culture We’ve Lost the Outrage You can never take society’s moral outrage seriously because society doesn’t want to rock the boat.
Feb 22, 2004 Music Cast of Thousands by Elbow (Review) Cast of Thousands is much deeper and more fully-realized than might be implied by the obvious Radiohead comparison.
Feb 22, 2004 Music Margerine Eclipse by Stereolab (Review) It feels rather unfocused and meandering, like the group hit a brick wall after a decade of making the same lovely sounds.
Feb 21, 2004 Music On Vacation by The Robot Ate Me (Review) This collection of inventive and brilliant avant pop songs is well worth the price. I only wish it was longer.
Feb 21, 2004 Music Seqsextend by I/Dex (Review) What primarily elevates Seqsextend above being just another glitch exercise is that there’s a nigh-living, breathing quality to its songs.
Feb 14, 2004 Best of Opus Music Join The Dots: B-Sides & Rarities, 1978-2001 by The Cure (Review) A microcosm of The Cure’s entire career, highlighting nearly every rise and fall, every stylistic direction, every bold experiment, and every failure the band has ever had.
Feb 14, 2004 Music Bloodflowers by The Cure (Review) This album is a reminder that no good thing can remain forever, and that we ought not to take them for granted while we have them around.
Feb 13, 2004 Movies Battle Royale 2 by Kenta Fukasaku (Review) Battle Royale 2 takes everything that was great about Battle Royale and replaces it with something that’s formulaic, amateurish, and exploitative.
Feb 11, 2004 Music In One-Hundred Years The Prize Will Be Forgotten by The Potomac Accord (Review) The Potomac Accord manage to twist a number of post-rock clichés by using piano as a lead instrument.
Feb 9, 2004 Music The 2004 Grammys I was amazed at just how self-congratulatory the entire ceremony felt.
Feb 9, 2004 Personal Religion Switching Gods If we’re made in the image of God, what does that say about the God in Whose image we’re made?
Feb 1, 2004 Music Another One Lost by Lake Trout (Review) Though not without its flaws, the album has plenty that impresses with breathless creativity and beauty.
Feb 1, 2004 Music Clear Horizon by Clear Horizon (Review) These songs rarely feel as compelling as it seems like they should be.
Feb 1, 2004 Music 1958 by Soul-Junk (Review) A record that punches holes through what the trained ear would classify as “beat-driven hip-hop.”