September 2011
3 posts
Total Slacker - Thrashin'
Garage rock, right? We’ve heard it. The clogged arteries of the music-loving internet are thick with garage rock acts, bedroom pop acts, and lo-fi super-teens who have figured out how to produce the worst possible guitar tones on their laptops. Anyone can thrash around in their bedroom in front of their computer these days and make an album. Anyone, sure. So, it would seem that New York...
The Kooks - Junk Of The Heart
“So, let me fuck the world off just for you,” The Kooks front man Luke Pritchard coos on the unabashedly poppy Fuck The World Off. It’s a phrase that sounds completely out of place coming from the same guy who did Ooh La a few years back, as if his façade of brashness has finally reached its ridiculous breaking point. Follow this with the undeniably sweet and charming Time Above The...
The Jayhawks - Mockingbird Time
It’s been 16 years since the last Jayhawks album, but with Mockingbird Time, these iconic old folks of pre-Wilco alt-country don’t sound like they’ve missed a beat. Gary Louris and Mark Olson fall right back into their quirky, familiarly off-kilter harmonies, and the duo lead their band through a series of earmarked tunes that would have mostly fit right in with 1995’s...
