mewithoutyou It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A Dream! It’s Alright: Mewithoutyou are back with another honest album. What it’s honest about is a little hard to tell. Aaron Weiss’s lyrics have become more obscure, but also remain meaningful. While they all seem to have a religious overtone, one can read more than [...]
the pAper chAse – Someday This Could All Be Yours prt 1
The pAper chAse Someday This Could All Be Yours prt 1: Austin Texas’ the pAper chAse are back with the first in a two part follow up to 2006′s Now You Are One of Us. As expected the black humor flows as freely as the blood and gore the lyrics, sometimes sounding like lines from [...]
Condo Fucks-Fuckbook
Condo Fucks Fuckbook: Loud, obnoxious, and fuzzed out. The Condo Fucks have produced an album of garage rock covers, so intentionally sloppy it sounds like each member of the band is trying to play a different Kinks song at the same time. Undeniably a blast live, I can’t get through the album in one sitting. [...]
Obits – I Blame You
Obits I Blame You: Your hipster friends are raving about this album, aren’t they? It’s a piece of indie rock that goes for a retro feel. You can dance to it and makes a suitable soundtrack to that next roof or loft party you go to. Yet Obits does nothing new. This sound has been [...]
Minus The Bear-Acoustics
Minus The Bear Acoustics: Acoustic versions of previously released songs. For a band that relies heavily on effects pedals, making an acoustic EP seems like a dangerous idea. Normally guitar dominated, going acoustic gives more focus to the lyrics and piano playing than on the original tracks. Don’t despair though, the guitars get a lot [...]
Wavvves-Wavvves
Wavvves Wavvves: A pretty standard indie rock album, with lots and lots of fuzz. Apparently that constitutes noise rock these days. 10/15 meh points
Shrag-Shrag
Shrag Shrag: Decent indie rock album with a hint of X-Ray Specs. Good vocal delivery and lyrics, over simple, but catchy mildly distorted riffs. Topically the album tends to focus on being a scenester. Not bad for a first release. Rating: 10/15 45′s
TV on The Radio-Dear Science
TV on The Radio Dear Science A well balanced album. TV on The Radio take funk, rock, hip-hop, punk, and even a little shoe-gaze, and make it all their own. Lyrically solid, but the vocal delivery and their seemingly endless supply of cool instrument sounds and production make this disk as kick-ass as it is. [...]
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead-The Century of Self
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Century of Self: Not my favorite album ever, but you can’t knock these guys for lack of passion or ambition. Every track has epic riffing impassioned vocals and lyrics which take no prisoner. A strong disk overall but the singularity of their musical attack, [...]
Cobra Verde-Haven’t Slept All Year
Cobra Verde Haven’t Slept All Year: Jumping from Garage rock to acoustic balladry to art rock tunes, this album presents a pretty cool listen. The lyrics never stray far from sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but have an appropriate swagger that keeps them enjoyable. Theres nothing unique here, just a quality rock album. Rating: [...]
