of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping
of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping October 21, 2008 Polyvinyl Rating: 4.5 / 5 The Music Rag One Sentence Review: Unbeknownst to most music fans, all four Beatles reunited briefly in 1977 and went to...
View ArticleAnimal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective have taken the melodic tones of previous effort Strawberry Jam, the sunny, beachy colors of Panda Bear’s ethereal solo album, and the liquid sounds of 2008′s Water Curses EP and...
View ArticleA.C. Newman – Get Guilty
A.C. Newman of The New Pornographers has more than proven that he knows pop music and he knows how to write the hell out of it, and Get Guilty will not surprise anyone who’s heard the Pornographers or...
View ArticleAntony and the Johnsons – The Crying Light
Antony and the Johnson’s newest LP is musically not too dissimilar from 2005′s I Am a Bird Now – greeting the listener with sparse and lovely instrumentation and Antony Hegarty’s uniquely soul-shaking...
View ArticleBon Iver – Blood Bank
Bon Iver’s first EP sees Justin Vernon out of his cabin in the woods and accompanied by a band but making similarly soulful and masterfully written tunes (the title track in particular), all be it...
View ArticleBeirut – March of the Zapotec/Holland
Beirut’s newest release is a series of two EPs: the first is a waltzy, brass-driven affair that feels like the mournful soundtrack to a funeral in some Mexican village; Holland demonstrates the true...
View ArticleHandsome Furs – Face Control
Wolf Parader Dan Boeckner and wife Alexei Perry’s follow-up to 2007′s Plague Park is soaked in New Order-style 80′s pop, along with a healthy dose of guitar and Boeckner’s distinctively swaggering...
View ArticleLotus Plaza – The Floodlight Collective
A side project by Deerhunter guitarist Lockett Pundt, Lotus Plaza’s debut bears a marked resemblance to that band at first listen – a lot of shoegazey guitar work and floating, sometimes inaudible...
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