Mar 26, 2007 Music Out of the Woods by Tracey Thorn (Review) What’s most gratifying about Out of the Woods is the appreciation it exudes for the simple graces of life.
Dec 28, 2006 Music Aerial Days by Songs of Green Pheasant (Review) Aerial Days is full of tiny shimmering moments of beauty.
Dec 17, 2006 Best of Opus Music Songs for Christmas by Sufjan Stevens (Review) I’ve heard most of the songs on here before, countless times. But I had never heard them like this, in such a sublime context.
Nov 19, 2006 Music Songs for Creeps by The Places (Review) Annelle’s songs encapsulate entire tiny little worlds of sound, conjuring up dim images of broken down places and darkened rooms pregnant with memory and longing.
Oct 29, 2006 Music Songs of Green Pheasant by Songs of Green Pheasant (Review) The album’s awkward-yet-earned shortcomings, much like its audio imperfections, only make it more affecting.
Oct 19, 2006 Music Brother, Sister by mewithoutYou (Review) Brother, Sister is a perfect encapsulation of everything that’s both good and bad about mewithoutYou’s music.
Sep 3, 2006 Music Mosaic by Wovenhand (Review) ‘Mosaic’ displays both the greatest strengths of Woven Hand’s music as well as its greatest weaknesses.
Aug 21, 2006 Music In the Garden of Ghostflowers by Black Happy Day (Review) Black Happy Day leaves the listener smack dab in the middle of a foreboding, constantly shifting environment.
Dec 28, 2005 Music Let It Die by Feist (Review) To say that Feist has one of the best voices I’ve heard all year would be an understatement, and a very obvious one at that.
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.
Nov 8, 2005 Music There’s a Fountain in the Fire by Canyon Country (Review) Full of ethereal and pastoral sounds, but there’s not much substance to the beauty.
Sep 3, 2005 Music Songs of Muerto County by Puerto Muerto (Review) Intended as a soundtrack for one of the most (in)famous exploitation films of all time, there’s very little that feels exploitative about this.
Sep 3, 2005 Music Elena by Puerto Muerto (Review) This could’ve been a compelling EP but it’s an overlong and thinly-stretched full-length.
Aug 18, 2005 Music Are You A Dreamer? by Denison Witmer (Review) There’s a confidence, a security that comes across in his music that is terribly comforting.
Jun 5, 2005 Music Illinois by Sufjan Stevens (Review) This album has been like a breath of fresh air for me, even bringing me close to tears during some of the more haunting passages.
May 23, 2005 Music Michigan by Sufjan Stevens (Review) Stevens’ love for crafting beautiful, complex arrangements is still in full effect.
Jan 8, 2005 Music Transmission of All the Good-Byes by Lilium (Review) Pascal Humbert’s cinematic music conjures up images of rundown desert locales and holes-in-the-wall.
Dec 4, 2004 Music Just in Time for Something by Damien Jurado (Review) It’s not so much what Jurado sings but how he sounds doing it. (But what he sings is pretty darn good.)
Nov 8, 2004 Music Homesongs by Adem (Review) A sense of warmth and comfort pervades every song on this album.