Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Underoath - They’re Only Chasing Safety (2004)

Dear fans of our early albums,

While it was fun composing funeral dirges for Satan, who really loves those chunky, out-of-nowhere 32nd note power chord riffs we like to think we made up, our contract expired and we have officially decided to write melodies.

Autolux - Future Perfect (2004)

Autolux are, out of so many possible newly-minted industrial stamps, “art-pop” — psychedelic grunge music that winds through the subconscious like the steady crank of a jack-in-the-box one moment, and assaults with tempests of guitar fury the next.