Nov 20, 2009 Music The Length of the Rail by The Balky Mule (Review) The Length of the Rail is a beguiling listening experience that rewards repeat listens.
Dec 28, 2006 Music Aerial Days by Songs of Green Pheasant (Review) Aerial Days is full of tiny shimmering moments of beauty.
Dec 12, 2006 Music Songs From Before by Max Richter (Review) Richter’s music is perfectly suited to the themes of loss, nostalgia, and alienation that permeate Haruki Murakami’s work.
Dec 7, 2006 Music The Twilight Sad EP by The Twilight Sad (Review) There’s a rawness and youthful recklessness that never fails to render their music beguiling, even at its loudest and most abrasive.
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.
Dec 4, 2004 Music The Blue Notebooks by Max Richter (Review) Max Richter’s compositions possess an arresting and singular beauty.
Aug 29, 2004 Music Sung Tongs by Animal Collective (Review) If loving Animal Collective is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
May 23, 2004 Music Summer Make Good by Múm (Review) Even with the album’s obvious flaws, Summer Make Good is certainly no reason to write off or dismiss Múm.
Nov 3, 2002 Music ( ) by Sigur Rós (Review) Compared to the celestial heights that Ágætis Byrjun strove for, ( ) feels remarkably restrained. But in its own way, far more ambitious.
Jun 14, 2002 Music Finally We Are No One by Múm (Review) Throughout Finally We Are No One, Múm never lets you forget that live, starry-eyed, wonder-filled humans are behind the music.
Oct 12, 2001 Music Angels of the Universe by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Sigur Rós (Review) You get the feeling that, in order to truly appreciate this music, you need to see the movie.
Nov 3, 2000 Music Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós (Review) Songs like these belong in movies at those pivotal scenes when someone has a religious experience, when long-lost lovers are finally reunited, or when someone is brought back from the brink of death.
Jun 24, 2000 Music Ný Batterí by Sigur Rós (Review) I am here to say that Sigur Rós lives up to everything you’ve ever read or heard about them.