Month: September 2011

Conatus is an emotionally intense album that will leave you completely drained and exhausted when it’s over. But it’s worth it.
Continue reading “Zola Jesus – Conatus”

a far sight better than it has any right to be
Continue reading “Various Artists – Johnny Boy Would Love This…A Tribute To John Martyn”

a deceptively welcoming album
Continue reading “I Break Horses – Hearts”

too tiring and far too schizophrenic for its own good
Continue reading “Prophets & Kings – Prophets & Kings”

I’m not sure what the hell it all means but then I’m not sure if I should?
Continue reading “Halloween, Alaska – All Night The Calls Came In”

Lots of the songs seem to get a nosebleed if they look to utilise more than 3 classic chords but that’s fine, this LP is not here to analyse Rock’s DNA structure it’s just an expression of good uncomplicated rock and roll.
Continue reading “Jacuzzi Boys – Glazin’”

So there’s an element of the High Magic as practised in Phallus Dei as well as the psych shock-horror of The Psychedelic Sounds present on Two Way Mirror.
Continue reading “Crystal Antlers – Two Way Mirror”

…as usual with Friedberger’s other work – she always seems to provide an absolute gobful of words and phrases in each song:  everything is in the manner of a very frank, open and detailed confession, seriously explained over coffee in some small breakfast joint.
Continue reading “Eleanor Friedberger – Last Summer”

In essence, think a chamber music version of the kind of lo-fi white noise that lots of people with pedals and keyboards have been making this past five years or so.
Continue reading “Talkdemonic – Ruins”

There’s a feel that some of the long passages, however carefully played inadvertently drift into some kind of late nineteenth century romanticism in spirit; Liszt, Brückner, that stuff you know?
Continue reading “A Winged Victory for the Sullen – A Winged Victory for the Sullen”