Friday, October 3, 2008
Darker My Love - 2 (2008)
Psychedelic / Shoegaze / Retro Pop
Darker My Love seem to be set on recording a ’60s psych-rock primer for today’s indie kids and shoegaze holdouts: 2’s cloudy-behind-the-eyes lyrics, organ, and scuzzed out anthems galore will please fans of The Beatles, Pink Floyd and My Bloody Valentine simultaneously.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Pitchblend - The Lines of Unreason (2008)
Pitchblend have occupied a coveted position in the underground rock consciousness, grabbing accolades like “Best Unsigned Band of the Year” around the same time like-minded space-rockers/pseudo-shoegazers My Vitriol were tearing up the UK charts. Like that band, they have taken their sweet damn time in putting out new material. Whether due to label pressure, pressure to find a label, or something else, it has proved taxing even on the patience of diehard fans. The question remains: is it worth the wait?
Sunday, April 1, 2007
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us (2005)
Blade Runner… without the blades or the running.
Moon Child
Don’t Save Us from the Flames
In the Cold I’m Standing
Farewell/Goodbye
Fields, Shorelines and Hunters
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I Guess I’m Floating
Teen Angst
Can’t Stop
Safe
Let Men Burn Stars
Car Chase Terror
Slight Night Shiver
Guitar and a Heart
Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun
Let’s define beauty. There’s a couple types. There’s “as beautiful as a rock [...]
Monday, January 29, 2007
The Swirlies - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons (1996)
Just wild stuff, just really wild
French Radio
In Her Many New Found Freedom
No Identifier
Sounds Of Sebring
San Cristolbal De Las Casas
You Can’t Be Told It You Must Behold It
Pony
Do Any Of You Know Anything About Love?
Two Girls Kissing
Sterling Moss
Boys, Protect Yourselves From Aliens
Sunn
The Vehicle Is Invisible
Bonus Track (Untitled)
More delicate records from the shoegaze era are usually graffitied [...]
Monday, October 16, 2006
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (2006)
You’ll be picking it up over and over and over and over and over and…
Melatonin
Well Thought Out Twinkles
Checkered Floor
Little Lover’s So Polite
Future Foe Scenarios
Waste It On
Lazy Eye
Rusted Wheel
Dream at Tempo 119
Three Seed
Common Reactor
Silversun Pickups get a lot of Corganishishness thrown their way for the [...]
Friday, August 11, 2006
Amusement Parks on Fire - Out of the Angeles (2006)
Out of the basement, into the stereo
Out Of The Angeles
Star Is Born
At Last The Night
In Flight
To The Shade
So Mote It Be
Blackout
Await Lightning
No Lite No Sound
Cut To Future Shock
Their name is one that simultaneously conjures feelings of joy and sadness, but the ride doesn’t stop there. [...]
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Catherine Wheel - Chrome (1993)
Underground (-water?) classic.
Kill Rhythm
I Confess
Crank
Broken Head
Pain
Strange Fruit
Chrome
The Nude
Ursa Major Space Station
Fripp
Half Life
Show Me Mary
“Chrome” was voted by at least one big name British rag as among the best guitar albums of all time. They’ve got it right. With a sound that’s equal parts bombast [...]
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
My Vitriol - Finelines (2001)
My Vitriol take influences like Nirvana, the Smashing Pumpkins, and shoegazing in general, and synthesize them into something that puts those influences on prominent display, yet which is completely their own. If “Loveless” cost My Bloody Valentine half a million dollars to produce, My Vitriol’s sound here is worth a million bucks.
