Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Fair to Midland - inter.funda.stifle (2004)
Dreams splendidly weaved from an atom bomb
Preambles In 3rd Person
Dance Of The Manatee
Vice/Versa
Cipieron
A Seafarer’s Knot
Orphan Anthem ‘86
Inter.mission
Granny Niblo
The Walls Of Jericho
Abigail
Timbuktu
Kyla Cries Cologne
Upgrade^Brigade
When The Bough Breaks
Quince
Until recently, Fair to Midland was an unsigned anomaly from Dallas, TX, waiting for their [...]
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Panic! At the Disco - A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out (2005)
Rock in a hard place
Introduction
The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage
London Beckoned Songs About Money Written By Machines
Nails For Breakfast, Tacks For Snacks
Camisado
Time To Dance
Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off
Intermission
But It’s Better If You Do
I [...]
Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops (2006)
Keep it like a secret
Alone, Jealous and Stoned
All At Once (It’s Not Important)
Lightning Blue Eyes
Daddy’s in the Doldrums
I Hate Pretending
Faded Lines
I Want to Know If It’s Still Possible
1000 Seconds
They’re like rock in how the drums and guitar hit like a burning Hindenburg falling with every beat. They’re like [...]
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.
An idea for [...]
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Deftones - Deftones (2003)
When they’re ripe…
Hexagram
Needles and Pins
Minerva
Good Morning Beautiful
Deathblow
When Girls Telephone Boys
Battle-axe
Lucky You
Bloody Cape
Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event
Moana
“White Pony” should stand as one of the best recordings made at the onset of the 21st century. Combining heavy metal guitars and futuristic electronica touches with the alternately [...]
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Mansun - Kleptomania [BOX SET] (2004)
Quite a steal. Worth every penny.
Disc 1
Getting Your Way
Slipping Away
Keep Telling Myself
Harris
Love Remains
Cry 2 My Face
No Signal/No Complaints
Home
Fragile
Wanted So Much
Good Intentions Heal The Soul
Disc 2
Take It Easy Chicken
Everyone Must Win
Closed For Business
Ski Jump Nose
Can’t Afford To Die
Railings
Flourella
[...]
Friday, November 25, 2005
Emanuel - Soundtrack to a Headrush (2005)
Can I get an “Amen”?
The Hey Man!
Buy American Machines
You Cannot Rape The Willing
Make Tonight
The Hotline
Soundtrack To A Headrush
Breathe Underwater
The New Violence
Xeroxicide
Dislocated
If you’re familiar with this genre, you know there’s a literal ton of bands that claim to herald a “return to riff rock,” then end [...]
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness (2005)
Star Wars meets Harry Potter meets Rush meets The Used
Keeping The Blade
Always & Never
Welcome Home
Ten Speed (Of God’s Blood & Burial)
Crossing The Frame
Apollo I : The Writing Writer
Once Upon Your Dead Body
Wake Up
The Suffering
The Lying Lies & Dirty Secrets of Miss Erica Court
Mother May I
[...]
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Rx Bandits - The Resignation (2003)
Skank!
Sell You Beautiful
Prophetic
Newsstand Rock (Exposition)
Overcome (The Recapitulation)
Never Slept So Soundly
Taking Chase As The Serpent Slithers
Republic
Mastering The List
Falling Down The Mountain
Dinna-Dawg (And The Inevitable Onset Of Lunacy)
Pal-Treaux
Decrescendo
Assuming the acid-wrought art damage cover art didn’t immediately pique interest, here is a consumer exercise:
Imagine your favorite punk rock album. Now, replace the sloppy playing, half-baked guitar solos, and [...]
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Heatmiser - Dead Air (1993)
This heat is killing me!
Still
Candyland
Mock-up
Dirt
Bottle Rocket
Blackout
Stray
Can’t Be Touched
Cannibal
Don’t Look Down
Sands Hotel
Lowlife
Buick
Dead Air
Take stock of “Dead Air” and realize that, like most good albums, the sonic variance is slim. All fifteen cuts on the earliest album from singer-songwriter Elliott Smith (”Good Will Hunting”) and company’s rock outfit fall into the category of “brash, loud and inventive.”
Heatmiser [...]
