Monday, November 20, 2006

Fear Before the March of Flames - The Always Open Mouth (2006)

Fishing for hooks for always open ears

Absolute Future
Drowning The Old Hag
Mouth
Taking Cassandra to the End of the World Party
Ten Seconds In Los Angeles
The Waiting Makes Me Curious
High As A Horse
Dog Sized Bird
Complete and Utter Confusion…
…As a Result of Signals Being Crossed
My (Fucking) Deer Hunter
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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Bush - The Science of Things (1999)

Alternative Rock / Electronica

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Bush’s foray into electronica, derided by critics when it came out, laid a fair bit of groundwork for all the popular alt-rock bands who are rewarded for doing the same thing today.

The Gathering - Black Light District (2002)

Anneke, you don’t have to put on the black light

Black Light District
Debris
Broken Glass

An out-of-tune piano can easily concoct dissonant sounds that many might call “haunting.” Doing it with a well-tuned one, well, that requires a bit more skill– and fans of the beautiful timbre of a well-made, well-tuned acoustic piano cannot afford to miss this [...]

Thursday, November 9, 2006

The Delays - You See Colours (2006)

Colorful, saccharine little pop record

You and Me
Valentine
This Towns Religion
Sink Like a Stone
Too Much in Your Life
Winters Memory of Summer
Given the Time
Hideaway
Lillian
Out of Nowhere
Waste of Space

If you like your IHOP all syrup and no pancakes, “You See Colours” is probably the record that plays over [...]

Thursday, November 2, 2006

Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness (2006)

Siren song of the counter-counterculture.

Chamber The Cartridge
Injection
Ready To Fall
Bricks
Under The Knife
Prayer of the Refugee
Drones
The Approaching Curve
Worth Dying For
Behind Closed Doors
Roadside
The Good Left Undone
Survive

Up on top, it’s nothing but gold teeth, big cars and big butts; trolling in the underground, you meet a [...]