Category: RECORD REVIEWS

TOMMY JAY: Tom’s Tall Tales Of Trauma [Columbus Discount]

In the ‘80s, long before mp3s or MySpace, bands hunkered down with cheap gear, cranked out demos, dubbed them onto

March 17, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

BORN RUFFIANS: Red, Yellow And Blue [Warp]

Depicting a nerdy guy, a chubby guy and a normal guy shooting the shit obliviously while a party rages around

March 4, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

KELLEY POLAR: I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling [Environ]

There’s something perversely charming about Kelley Polar’s puckish mucking-about with electronica/post-dance conventions. If you can’t dance to it, what the

March 4, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS: Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! [Anti-]

For a master of the tongue-in-cheek, the bright marquee lights gracing Nick Cave’s 14th studio album seem like a heartfelt

March 3, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

ATLAS SOUND: Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel [Kranky]

One of the most exciting aspects of Deerhunter’s recent Cryptograms was its schizophrenic approach to sound: bone-rattling noise rock one

February 19, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

VARIOUS ARTISTS: Don’t Press Your Luck: The In Sound Of 60’s Connecticut [Sundazed]

Subtitled Garage And Psych Howlers From The Vaults Of Trod Nossel Studios ’66-’68!, this is a suitably solid-gone tribute to

February 19, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

THROW ME THE STATUE: Moonbeams [Secretly Canadian]

More ebullient than Belle And Sebastian, less catholic than Peter Bjorn And John and just as tightly tethered to new-wave

February 19, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

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