Oct 23, 2006 Music Apostasy by A Year To Forget (Review) A Year to Forget have an energy to them and you can tell that their live shows are probably insane from this release.
Oct 12, 2006 Music Wolves by My Latest Novel (Review) Repeated listens bear out My Latest Novel’s charms.
Aug 3, 2006 Music Too Soon To Say by Shane Bartell (Review) The quieter parts of the album are what feel like the real Bartell.
Jul 19, 2006 Music Shapes and Sizes by Shapes And Sizes (Review) There’s something infectious, toe-tapping, and even joyous about the album as a whole.
Jul 17, 2006 Music History Will Never Hold Me by The Hourly Radio (Review) There are moments where the band transcends any potential limitations of said genre, and prove such knee-jerk reactions wrong.
Jul 9, 2006 Music All Lost by Monster Movie (Review) A blend of lush, euphoric pop music with lyrics full of existential despair, romantic failure, and wistfulness.
Jun 17, 2006 Music Flight of the Flynns by Kunek (Review) This music drifts by with poise and confidence.
May 26, 2006 Music A Breath of Sigh by Follow The Train (Review) A definite sleeper album, and one that will probably fly under most people’s radars.
Mar 18, 2006 Music Captain Yonder by Captain Yonder (Review) Captain Yonder are at their best when Pfeiffer and Co. are busy drumming up a rollicking number.
Feb 21, 2006 Music Preaching to the Fire by The Great Depression (Review) This gloomily lush, opaque pop unfolds with every listen to reveal an amazing array of sonic details that consistently proves lovely and alluring.
Jan 28, 2006 Music Rocinate by Ester Drang (Review) Rocinate is not without its weaknesses, but those only come as a result, I think, of being too ambitious.
Nov 25, 2005 Music I Will Burn Your Winter by For Wishes (Review) The lyrics on I Will Burn Your Winter come to the forefront, with evocative and impassioned results.
Nov 22, 2005 Music Branches by Antlerand (Review) Antlerand’s unconventionality stems from their blending of electronic music with more straightforward indie-rock structures.
Oct 7, 2005 Music Thunder, Lightning, Strike by The Go! Team (Review) An absolutely delirious record whose substance comes purely from its delirious flow and infectious sense of fun.
Jul 17, 2005 Music The Structure of a Precise Fashion by History Invades (Review) For all of the band’s angst-ridden vocals and explosive song dynamics, it never really gets the blood flowing.
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.
Jun 11, 2005 Music The Baby Teeth Album by Baby Teeth (Review) Baby Teeth makes me love the ’70s all the more.
Apr 9, 2005 Music Silent Alarm by Bloc Party (Review) It’ll be interesting to see how this disc holds up in a month, 6 months, a year.
Apr 4, 2005 Music 81:03 by Antarctica (Review) One of those albums that reminds you of all of your favorite bands and yet still sounds unique.
Apr 3, 2005 Music 23:03 by Antarctica (Review) The incredible thing about Antarctica is that the musical formula, which could be so ‘80s, steers clear of the silly clichés it could easily fall into.