Jul 22, 2001 Music Souvenir from a Dream by The Waterfall Effect (Review) Despite the album’s fairly minimal nature, there’s something vast and alien about these songs.
Jun 2, 2001 Music Picnic Basket (A Shelflife International Pop Compilation) by Various Artists (Review) Shelflife have gathered bands from all around the world to create a soundtrack for sunny days with the occasional rain shower.
Jun 1, 2001 Best of Opus Music The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads by Lift To Experience (Review) It’s this dichotomy between the worldliness and the spirituality in their songs that makes Lift To Experience’s music so interesting to me.
Apr 7, 2001 Music California by The Lassie Foundation (Review) Simply put, this album reaffirms all that’s good and golden with pop music.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Electrostaticvibraverb by The Swells (Review) The Swells have heart, but they just don’t inject enough of it into their music.
Mar 24, 2001 Music Goldenwest by Ester Drang (Review) There are those times when, within the first 30 seconds of listening to a new CD, you know you’re listening to something truly special.
Mar 10, 2001 Music That Is When He Turns Us Golden by Ester Drang (Review) A noisy space album filled with feedback, experimental reverb, eerie electronics, and soft vocals that should please any My Bloody Valentine fan.
Jan 22, 2001 Music Parallel Thoughts EP by The Waterfall Effect (Review) It’s pretty obvious where The Waterfall Effect derives its sound, but it does so without sounding terribly derivative.
Jan 13, 2001 Music Neverfigure by Gentlyfall (Review) I mean, you name the shoegaze accoutrement, they’ve got it.
Dec 21, 2000 Music What Will Become of the Key of Reason? by Mahogany (Review) All in all, a pleasant-sounding enough EP, but nothing that will probably blow your socks off.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Fold Zandura by Fold Zandura (Review) I could easily see Fold Zandura blowing away many of the “established” Christian “modern rock” acts.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Pygmalion by Slowdive (Review) This was Slowdive’s swan song, and a gorgeous one at that.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Souvlaki by Slowdive (Review) Souvlaki is Slowdive’s best collective effort, funneling the atmospherics of their previous efforts into a more cohesive package.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Just for a Day by Slowdive (Review) My first introduction to Slowdive, and an album that left such an impact on me that I still compare new albums to it today.