Jack White – Blunderbuss
on April 23, 2012
White’s first solo record could not have happened if it weren’t for a combination of the bizarre, the opportunistic and the insanely talented.
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Spiritualized – Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
on April 16, 2012
Spiritualized’s seventh album is a record that at first seems more on the nose than anything Pierce has ever created then deepens with each successive listen.
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AU – Both Lights
on April 12, 2012
AU’s fourth proper LP dives too far into flailing pop references, constantly vascillating between retrieving that gigantic pop ecstasy and wading through more experimental and plaintive moments.
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Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s – Rot Gut, Domestic
on April 9, 2012
The band’s fourth record is a casually interesting one with twinges of new sounds to satiate fans and add something mildly spicier to the recipe of their live show.
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M. Ward – A Wasteland Companion
on April 2, 2012
Coming off of three years of escalating production values and larger sounds, Wasteland welcomes airiness and spatial comfort back into the Ward toolbox.
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Feeling the ‘Orinoco Flow’
on April 2, 2012
This year, as odd as this might sound, the sound of young America has the definite smack of Enya.
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Hunger Hurts: Digesting When the Pawn …
on March 22, 2012
When the Pawn fixes the right mixture of self-hate, self-pity and vicious snarl.
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Sell by Southwest
on March 20, 2012
As the Bard once said, a sinus infection is a terrible thing to waste. Thus, my weeklong excursion into the heart of Austin, taken over by a preponderance of that weird and introverted paler sex (the blogger, duh), was punctuated by that nagging feeling that one gets after having ingested opiates (I would assume…) or, […]
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The Men – Open Your Heart
on March 9, 2012
Using a breadth of rock literacy as a foundation, The Men gestate and fly through tempo, mood and production value to create an unrelenting joy of a record.
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Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
on March 1, 2012
One wouldn’t accuse Bruce Springsteen of being a corporate shill, but most of Wrecking Ball indicates that he’s still subsisting on updates of former glories.
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Tindersticks – The Something Rain
on February 21, 2012
Other than a handful of tracks that maintain some brief levity, the Something Rain would only classify as easy listening for the gloom ridden.
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Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It
on February 17, 2012
Put Your Back N 2 It doesn’t so much beg repeated listens to discover hidden gems as much as it asks whether you’ll dive back in to discover why it’s so short.
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