Sep 19, 2002 Music The Californian by Sunday’s Best (Review) A considerable step in the right direction for Sunday’s Best.
Aug 23, 2002 Music A Cult of One by My Favorite (Review) The genius here is that, rather than making these songs into goth ballads or melodramatic affairs, they keep them short, sweet, and best of all, catchy.
Aug 23, 2002 Music Move by Blanket Music (Review) Perhaps better than any other Hush release, it illustrates the label’s “anti-rock” stance.
Aug 14, 2002 Music The Fashion Focus by Starflyer 59 (Review) In some ways, this album is an amalgamation of everything that Martin has done before.
Jul 19, 2002 Music Alone at the Microphone by Royal City (Review) Royal City has moved from being a band that hinted at greatness with their debut to an act that fully realized that potential in one enormous step.
Jun 15, 2002 Music In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel (Review) The mix of bizarre sonics, lyrical freakshows, and normal songcraft definitely feed off each other.
May 26, 2002 Music El Dorado LP by The Lassie Foundation (Review) It’s not rocket science, it’s not going to change the world, but as music-as-pleasant-diversions go, El Dorado is a damn good one.
May 26, 2002 Music We Are The Boggs We Are by The Boggs (Review) One of the best things going in the alt-country scene today.
May 5, 2002 Music Done Gone Fire by Liz Janes (Review) As poised and fully realized a debut as you’re ever likely to come across.
May 5, 2002 Music Start Here by The Gloria Record (Review) Production here is lush and layered and surprisingly keyboard-focused.
Apr 21, 2002 Music I Break Chairs by Damien Jurado (Review) Beneath the unaccustomed level of noise, Jurado remains as incisive a writer as ever, and has never sounded better vocally.
Apr 20, 2002 Music Control by Pedro The Lion (Review) A concept album that reveals the lives of the supposedly righteous for the moral travesties they really are.
Mar 23, 2002 Music The Hour of Bewilderbeast by Badly Drawn Boy (Review) Badly Drawn Boy seems to look for any excuse to break the conventional song set-up.
Mar 23, 2002 Music Laughing All the While by Echo Orbiter (Review) Echo Orbiter have made a good record that uses a lot of old tricks, but in relatively new ways.
Mar 23, 2002 Music The Future That Used To Be by Mark Protus (Review) Mark Protus goes from hard rock to country without flinching.
Feb 27, 2002 Music Bright Flight by The Silver Jews (Review) Unfortunately, the album lacks the tunes to keep up with its masterful lyrics.
Feb 2, 2002 Music Movement by The Elevator Division (Review) Despite much of the album’s rather gloomy sound, there’s nothing overwrought or melodramatic about it
Jan 29, 2002 Music Eight Hours Away from Being a Man by Roadside Monument (Review) Probably one of most challenging things that Tooth and Nail Records has ever released.
Jan 29, 2002 Music I Am the Day of Current Taste by Roadside Monument (Review) Listening to Roadside Monument becomes educational and challenging, while remaining emotional.