Friday, March 17, 2006

Boys Night Out - Trainwreck (2005)

More of a Planecrash

Introducing
Dreaming
Waking
Sentencing
Medicating
Purging
Relapsing
Recovering
Composing
Disintegrating
Healing
Dying

Sugar, we’re goin’ down. “Trainwreck” is a concept album that plays more like a plane crash than its title would suggest, which is to say it takes a spectacular nosedive in quality after the first couple high-flying tracks.
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Friday, March 3, 2006

Blackfield - Blackfield (2005)

Warm and fuzzy bleak-pop

Open Mind
Blackfield
Glow
Scars
Lullaby
Pain
Summer
Cloudy Now
The Hole In Me
Hello
Perfect World
Where Is My Love?
Cloudy Now

Blackfield is a progressive rock/pop band whose blend of minor key melancholia and wall-of-sound euphoria works best as the soundtrack to late night lounging and contemplation. Maybe under blacklight.
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