Archive for 'Music Reviews'
Album Review: Mission Of Burma
Sometimes it’s a very tactile thing we associate. Marcel Proust had his madeleine cookies and tea moment that spurred on a copious rush of long forgotten childhood memories (many volumes, to the delight of modern literature the world over). There are chilled times, especially around Christmas that the most hardened of us stop and do [...]
Posted: December 19th, 2009 under Music Reviews.
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Two Reviews: Lou Barlow & Thee Oh Sees
I comfort myself with the lonesome delusion that almost everyone out there anticipates conversations they might have. At some point. Some day maybe. Morning commute fills with anticipated conversations. That ex-girlfriend might happen to run into the same bakery on the same day. Your boss asks what are you truly feeling. The police officer — [...]
Posted: November 17th, 2009 under Music Reviews.
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Remora Review
Affection. Not every release elicits this rare blush or its companion emotion. So it’s even less frequent when the entire catalog from a particular label brings forth the feeling of joy and discovery. Silber Records is that label for me and it has been for some time (I’ve even forgotten how I discovered them). Their [...]
Posted: September 15th, 2009 under Music Reviews.
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Meat Puppets Review
I have a terrific memory for some visual things. It is especially keen when it has to do with music and my experience in seeking and finding it. Band names in the gritty papers that my Dad and I would pick up around town leap off the page — they still do. Smashing Pumpkins. Big [...]
Posted: September 15th, 2009 under Music Reviews.
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Superchunk Review
When I started writing music reviews more than nine years ago, I received albums in CD form. Anywhere from five to thirty per week. They’d arrive in packages and padded mailers, filled with discs and lots of paper: label propaganda, clippings from other media outlets. Sometimes there would be stickers or other goodies to ostensibly [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2009 under Music Reviews.
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Pissed Jeans Review
I’m a terrific fan of the angry young man complex. The further I find myself in an inevitable egress from that trait as an element of my life, the more I seek to indulge in its musical trappings to keep it at least close enough to relate to. I’m thirty-three years old and I have [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2009 under Music Reviews.
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The Fruit Bats Review
I was sent a message from a friend last night. It was a short email at the end of a day of us bouncing them back and forth. Less than 100 characters, it amounted to a “Tweet” (a phenomenon that I’ve yet to indulge in and may never). He was reporting on his status from [...]
Posted: August 6th, 2009 under Music Reviews.
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Japandroids Review
In early June of 2009, I picked up on the Japandroids through their new release, Post Nothing. It feels like a date worthy of memorial. The album came immediately in a digital download form from Polyvinyl records followed a few months later by a 180 Gram LP (with a bevy of other posters, stickers, candy [...]
Posted: August 2nd, 2009 under Music Reviews.
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