
“Alternative” Reviews
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Truelove’s Gutter by Richard Hawley (Review)
Truelove’s Gutter is a magnificent, richly textured album highlighted by Hawley’s remarkable voice and unashamedly sentimental lyrics.In Rainbows by Radiohead (Review)
The sound of a band completely comfortable inside its own skin and supremely confident in their skills.Turn Off The Stars by Turn Off The Stars (Review)
It seems like every song is a big, swaggering ballad full of crashing drums and epic guitars that wears its heart on its sleeve.The Drift by Scott Walker (Review)
You must either acquiesce to Scott Walker’s latest or just throw the whole thing away and move onto something safer.Magma EP by The Technoillogical Myopia (Review)
The Technoillogical Myopia reminds me of the sort of the music I listened to back when “alternative” music was a thing.Songs For The Advent by Sojourn (Review)
I was completely unaware that I needed a good Christmas album this year and yet this album has filled that niche quite nicely.Not Them You by Lake Trout (Review)
Lake Trout shatters through the obvious comparisons, attaining a lofty sound all their own.400 Winters EP by Bark Psychosis (Review)
There’s such a wealth of ideas and detail in Sutton’s compositions that even hearing other people’s takes on those elements feels like wholly original material.First We Waited… Then It Started by Summer Lawns (Review)
The long and short of it is that the band sounds just a little too much like Radiohead for their own good.Fake Valentine by David Francis (Review)
A pleasantly enjoyable disc, one that deserves to be heard by far more than have probably had the chance to hear it.High by The Blue Nile (Review)
Buchanan and his bandmates seem more interested in capturing the beauty and magic in life’s mundane details.Sin Disease by Scaterd Few (Review)
A real gem that hasn’t lost it’s energy after almost a decade, and whose impact will probably never fully be known.Low Birth Weight by Piano Magic (Review)
Piano Magic’s music is as spectral and eerie as it is beautiful and enchanting.August Everywhere by Blinker The Star (Review)
The album is pop album first and foremost, in all of its unabashed glory.Life Begins Again by The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex (Review)
A very solid debut from a group that clearly knows their strengths and plays to them consistently from beginning to end.Sung Tongs by Animal Collective (Review)
If loving Animal Collective is wrong, I don’t want to be right.We Could Live in Hope: A Tribute to Low by Various Artists (Review)
When taken on its own merits, the compilation has plenty of high points.The Wheel Works by The Wheel Works (Review)
It has the operatic rock quality of The Who or Pink Floyd with the sensibility to rock à la Radiohead.