Category: RECORD REVIEWS
CAT POWER: Jukebox [Matador]
Chan Marshall owes her career as much to psychodrama as music, but it’s just now that she’s reached her most
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS: Brighter Than Creation’s Dark [New West]
With 2006’s A Blessing And A Curse, the Drive-By Truckers—perhaps one of the most respected bands to emerge from the
BIIRDIE: Catherine Avenue [Love Minus Zero]
Catherine Avenue is the album Rilo Kiley could’ve wowed the world with if Jenny Lewis and Co. learned the art
PHOTON BAND: Back Down To Earth [Empyrean]
Art Di Furia’s Photon Band was one of the cornerstones of Psychedelphia, a loose coterie of Philly bands from the
EVANGELICALS: The Evening Descends [Dead Oceans]
To listen to Evangelicals’ second album, you’d think the studio was hip deep in musicians, a la the Polyphonic Spree.
TIMES NEW VIKING: Rip It Off [Matador]
The list of band members on this Ohio trio’s MySpace page says it all: Hamish Kilgour, Mark Ibold and Brix
JACK PEÑATE: Matinee [XL]
Jack Peñate is a posh kid from South London who nevertheless affects the professional Cockney accent that’s currently de rigueur
















