Chris Cornell Scream: A pleasant enough radio friendly album. The whole album, was produced by Timbaland, who largely sticks to the pop beats that have become his signature. Cornell’s voice is in good shape, and he sounds more enthusiastic here than on much of his work with Audioslave. He plays the role of pop singer [...]
Handsome-Furs Face Control
Handsome Furs Face Control: 1980′s worshiping indie-rock. Drum machines and fuzzy guitars provide a backdrop to poetic lyrics, delivered like Bernard Sumner. Not the best thing out there, but it is a fun and danceable record.
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. [...]
Extra Golden-Thank You Very Quickly
Extra Golden Thank You Very Quickly: The funky grooves found on this album, could wake someone from a coma, and get their ass grooving, right there in the hospital. The group consists of an ethno-musicologist some Chicago based musicians and some Kenyan musicians who specialize in a musical style known as benga. The resulting sound [...]
Tom Rush-What I Know
Tom Rush What I Know: A healthy balance between up-tempo fun folk songs, and mournful country ballads. Theres an abundance of covers here, but Rush writes songs as well as he interprets them. His guitar playing is reserved but tasteful as is his clear voice and his simple guitar playing. A pleasant record without any [...]
Mystery Girls-Incontinopia
Mystery Girls Incontinopia: Garage-rock with a strong blues influence. The singer likes to holler about sex and drugs. Its obvious these guys love what they’re doing, I’m sure live all of these songs hold up. On the album, the non-stop Blues barrage gets a bit tedious, but there aren’t too many weak tracks. Rating:11/15 Drunkin’ [...]
Moondog-Sax Pax for a Sax
Moondog Sax Pax for a Sax: Sax heavy jazz influenced danceable tunes, which adhere to an incredibly strict set of harmonic rules. Moondog’s compositions at once sound unique, but also lack variation due to his very set beliefs in the proper way to compose. The harmonies, progressions, and time signatures all become predictable. That being [...]
Gentelman Reg-Little Buildings
Gentleman Reg Little Buildings: A solid pop album with fairly complex clean-tone guitar arrangements. Reg’s voice takes a little getting used to, but fits the songs perfectly once you’re used to it. Every element of the disk from the lyrics to the drumming manages to be unique and inventive, without sacrificing its catchiness. A really [...]
A.C. Newman-Get Guilty
A.C. Newman Get Guilty: Solid indie rock, fairly diverse song arrangements keep this album interesting throughout. Not my favorite album, but its fun and there aren’t any bad tracks. Rating: 12/15 Catchy tunes
