October 2011
6 posts
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Tape Club
As the story goes, Springfield, Missouri’s Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin raised money to press copies of their debut home-recorded album, Broom, by selling memberships in a tape club, and they created cassette tapes with hand-made labels and mailed them to fans. And now, ten years in, they’ve collected 26 B-sides, unreleased demos, and tunes that never made it onto any...
Loney Dear - Hall Music
“I want your name, I want your name next to mine.” This central sentiment of love and devotion is key to what makes Loney Dear - the project of Sweden’s Emil Svanängen - so affecting. And on his sixth album, Hall Music, Svanängen has expanded the Loney Dear palette with full orchestrations in place of his usual barebones guitar and quiet synth arrangements.
Loney Dear - Hall...
Pink Skull - Psychic Welfare
“Hot bubblegum. Hot bubblegum. Hot bubblegum. Hot bubblegum. It’s all over me.” So goes the most substantial vocal refrain on the third album from Philadelphia’s Pink Skull, Psychic Welfare. This is sung in a lazy, bemused style by Julian Grefe, a guy whose voice is a mix between Collective Soul’s Ed Roland and Jeremy Bolen from Chin Up Chin Up. But we haven’t...
Radiohead - TKOL RMX 1234567
As a series of seven 12” singles, Radiohead’s commissioned remixes took on the feel of a serial wave of gradually evolving permutations of The King Of Limbs, perhaps one of the most divisive albums of 2011. Initial critical reception of the original album ranged from emphatic praise to lukewarm acceptance or outright dismissal, but as time has told, The King Of Limbs wears deeper and...
Shin Joong Hyun - Beautiful Rivers And Mountains:...
A young Korean guitarist discovers the power of American rock ‘n’ roll hunched over a homemade wireless radio in mid-fifties Seoul. He cuts his teeth at U.S. Army bases, performing rock songs and standards for American GIs and soloing frantically between verses. He singlehandedly brings psychedelic rock into the Korean musical landscape, catapulting various bands and performing...
Mastodon - The Hunter
After four carefully crafted concept albums, Atlanta heavy metal giants Mastodon have scaled back the heady approach for a tight, hard-hitting, and wonderfully varied fifth album, The Hunter. Where they’ve previously explored fire (2002’s Remission), water (2004’s Leviathan, which miniaturized Moby Dick), earth (2006’s Blood Mountain), and the celestial realm...
