Sep 23, 2018 Best of Opus Music Low Tear Their Music Apart on Double Negative, with Stunning Results (Review) Some of the most challenging music of Low’s career, but also some of the most daring, intriguing, and rewarding.
Apr 11, 2007 Music Drums and Guns by Low (Review) One of the best albums of 2007 so far, as well as one of the best albums of Low’s career.
Sep 26, 2004 Music In a Safe Place by The Album Leaf (Review) This album glows like a little gem, and is there whenever I need comforting or just want to give my ears a treat.
Nov 9, 2003 Music Shine a Light by The Constantines (Review) This could be a lost classic of the late ’80s British punk scene or the DC post-punk movement.
Nov 9, 2003 Music Only With Laughter Can You Win by Rosie Thomas (Review) She has a wistfully beautiful voice that can make you fall in love with her from a distance.
Nov 3, 2003 Music The Sea and the Rhythm by Iron And Wine (Review) He has only two releases in his young career, but Sam Beam has already made a believer of me for life.
May 22, 2003 Music Give Up by The Postal Service (Review) This is an electro-pop record that doesn’t properly belong to any movement or time period.
Apr 12, 2003 Music No Silver/No Gold by The Baptist Generals (Review) This new album contains all of the same elements that made the debut so great, but that palpable energy seems lacking.
Apr 12, 2003 Music Holopaw by Holopaw (Review) From the start, John Orth’s songwriting is notable for its strangely cryptic and elliptical verse.
Mar 23, 2003 Music Void Touching Faster Victuals by The Baptist Generals (Review) This is country-folk music fresh from the fields, still crusted in dirt and sweat from a day’s hard work.
Nov 3, 2002 Music The Creek Drank the Cradle by Iron And Wine (Review) Sam Beam is a poet, plain and simple.
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 21, 2002 Music When We Were Small by Rosie Thomas (Review) Thomas is the kind of performer that could sing gibberish and make it sound good.
Apr 7, 2001 Music The Lateness of the Hour by Eric Matthews (Review) Matthews seems to love to play with words as much as as he loves to play with orchestration and arrangements.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Post to Wire by Heather Duby (Review) ‘Post to Wire’ sounds like something you’d expect from a label like 4AD rather than what was once the home of grunge.
Apr 7, 2001 Music It’s Heavy in Here by Eric Matthews (Review) Eric Matthews has achieved an interesting, mysterious pop sound that oozes suaveness and sophistication.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Rehearsals for Departure by Damien Jurado (Review) Jurado’s lyrics manage to describe tales that seem epic, struggles that seem like something truly overcome.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Overcome by Happiness by The Pernice Brothers (Review) After the initial wonder with all of the songs, there are definitely songs that begin to take a backseat to others.
Feb 17, 2001 Music Ghost of David by Damien Jurado (Review) The territory that Jurado explores is not for those seeking easy answers wrapped up in pop melodies.
Dec 23, 2000 Music Good Humor by Saint Etienne (Review) Saint Etienne is another appropriate example of Sub Pop veering towards a more refined style of music.