Category: 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
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
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
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
JAPANCAKES: If I Could See Dallas / Down The Elements / The Sleepy Strange
Led by guitarist Eric Berg, Athens, Ga.’s Japancakes began as an experiment: What would it be like to get a
MARCO BENEVENTO: Invisible Baby [Hyena]
Those brought up in the rich tradition of the jazz piano trio, a style that once flourished in the hands

















