Sunday, April 1, 2007
Pinback - Summer in Abaddon (2004)
Celebrated Summer
Non Photo-Blue
Sender
Syracuse
Bloods on Fire
Fortress
This Red Book
Soaked
3 x 0
The Yellow Ones
AFK
Listening to a Pinback record is about the easiest thing you’ll ever do. Their mellow but complex songs are a soundtrack to the working man with a brain and two ears– soothingly propulsive, powered by choppy guitar lines and fat, hollow-log bass, salted with tasty [...]
Friday, October 6, 2006
Brazil - The Philosophy of Velocity (2006)
Re-Loused in the Comatorium
On Safe-Cracking And Rubella
Crime (And The Antique Solution)
You Never Know
The Vapours
Cameo
Candles (Cast Long Shadows)
Au Revoir, Mr. Mercury
Captain Mainwaring
A Year In Heaven
The Remarkable Cholmondley Chute System
Breathe
Strange Days
Jonathon Newby must have a set of pitch pipes tuned to Cedric Bixler’s vocal cords, [...]
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.
With a [...]
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
[...]
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Matt Costa - Songs We Sing (2005)
Melodies with simple harmonies…
Yellow Taxi
Astair
Oh Dear
Cold December
Desire’s Only Fling
Sweet Rose
Songs We Sing
Sunshine
Whiskey & Wine
Shimmering Fields
Behind The Moon
Wash Away
Break out a big black kettle. Now heat it up and toss Van Morrison, Simon and Garfunkel, and the Beatles headlong into the pot. You’ll come pretty close to Matt Costa.
The majority of converts you talk to will [...]
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters (1995)
Rock / Pop / Alternative
Written and performed almost entirely by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, the Foo Fighters debut is classic grunge-pop with Grohl’s sonic signature all over it.
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.
