Category: RECORD REVIEWS
Record Review: Free Kitten’s “Inherit”
Musical liberation has always been Free Kitten’s mantra. Fitting, since its core members hail from some of the past 30
MATES OF STATE: Re-Arrange Us [Barsuk]
Is there trouble brewing in pop paradise? It sounds like someone’s been cheating on Mates Of State’s watershed fifth album.
THE BLACK ANGELS: Directions To See A Ghost [Light In The Attic]
If the Black Angels’ 2006 debut was about the unraveling of the American dream—10 songs of alienation and anomie employing
First Exposure: New Bands Worth Knowing
ROYAL BANGS: We Breed Champions [Audio Eagle] Listen to the weary vocals and languid, Strokes-like guitars on “Broke Calculator,” and
VETIVER: Thing Of The Past [Gnomonsong]
Releasing a covers album when you’ve only got three LPs to your own credit can be a dicey notion. Yet
THE SUBMARINES: Honeysuckle Weeks [Nettwerk]
For a group that earned its reputation for the confessional nature of its debut album (2006’s Declare A New State!

















