Oct 31, 2023 Music Eyes in the Water by Fine China (Review) The Arizona outfit expands upon their ’80s-influenced sound with ambient interludes and less conventional arrangements.
Jun 26, 2023 Music So, I Set Myself a Problem by A Great Cloud of Witnesses (Review) This instrumental EP from Luxury’s Lee Bozeman contains one of the prettiest songs I’ve heard in awhile.
Nov 14, 2015 Music Strength by The Violet Burning (Review) Arguably my favorite worship album of all time.
Oct 8, 2009 Music 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.
Oct 18, 2007 Music In Rainbows by Radiohead (Review) The sound of a band completely comfortable inside its own skin and supremely confident in their skills.
Sep 3, 2006 Music 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.
Jul 4, 2006 Music 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.
Dec 26, 2005 Music 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.
Dec 14, 2005 Music 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.
Sep 3, 2005 Music Not Them You by Lake Trout (Review) Lake Trout shatters through the obvious comparisons, attaining a lofty sound all their own.
Jul 17, 2005 Music 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.
Jun 22, 2005 Music 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.
May 3, 2005 Music 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.
Apr 9, 2005 Music High by The Blue Nile (Review) Buchanan and his bandmates seem more interested in capturing the beauty and magic in life’s mundane details.
Apr 4, 2005 Music 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.
Apr 4, 2005 Music Low Birth Weight by Piano Magic (Review) Piano Magic’s music is as spectral and eerie as it is beautiful and enchanting.
Apr 4, 2005 Music August Everywhere by Blinker The Star (Review) The album is pop album first and foremost, in all of its unabashed glory.
Jan 23, 2005 Music 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.
Aug 29, 2004 Music Sung Tongs by Animal Collective (Review) If loving Animal Collective is wrong, I don’t want to be right.