Apr 17 2009

Review "Proof of Youth" by The Go! Team (2007)

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England’s have The Go! Squad ar a unique entity to say the least. They’ve been lovingly described as everything from a Dance music collective with Hip-hop tendencies to a ring of cheerleaders on crack. The fact of the matter is that this squad won’t go comfortably into any of these pigeonholes. This mathematical group of festal misfits simply have to be heard to be apprehended because they defy whatever unproblematic logic or conventionality.

Proof of Youth is sure cut from the same textile as The Go! Team’s telling debut and is as solid a soph record as you could hope for from them. "Doing It Right" sounds wish The Supremes running around with the coolest cheer squad imaginable and "The Wrath of Marcie" proves that even something as unlikely as a Glen Campbell melodic line canful be broken down into a danceable enthrall. "Fake ID" sounds like Disco Deerhoof and "Flashlight Fight" is a notch to a higher place the rest but because the uncomparable Spew D of World Enemy brings the invitee vocals that take this party to the next level. On their superb track "Titanic Vandalism" the dubiousness that is repeatedly impressed upon the brain is "Are you ready for more?" The suffice is unambiguously yes please!

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Apr 14 2009

Review "Dying For The World" by WASP (2002)

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If you enquire me, WASP was Marilyn Sir Patrick Manson ahead Marilyn existed. Wasp is not your typical 80’s alloy band, only a criminal, rabid beast of it’s own–fronted by blaze destined shock-rocker Blackie Anarchic, world Health Organization has unitary of the almost powerful throats in john Rock history. With Blackie’s searing vocals and chain saw guitar riffs White Anglo-Saxon Protestant has made records that run the pump and soul of rebellion. Simply the last several years take not been kind to White Anglo-Saxon Protestant fans. With mediocre records like Helldorado and Unholy Brat, I’d all just lost religious belief in them. Just it appears that the Sept. 11 attacks brought out the beast in White Anglo-Saxon Protestant once over again and the ending result is the rock solid Dying for the World.

This new visceral masterpiece fuses the harmony driven Crimson Idol and the wrath driven K.F.D.–which ar my deuce favourite White Anglo-Saxon Protestant records so gratuitous to tell I like the new record album. This is a great phonograph record and is destined to turn some other Wasp classical that smashes on at a acid pace and is tailer made for terrifying the elderly and pissing-off button-down parents the world over.

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Apr 09 2009

Review "The Bravery" by The Bravery (2005)

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God, ar these guys some kind of a bad jest? After listening to this New York five-spot piece’s debut album, that’s the conclusion I’ve come up with. It’s got to be, good? These guys can’t peradventure be for real, could they? Possibly Brandon Flowers of The Killers was correct in his assumptions that The Fearlessness ar a sham of a band meant to cash in on The Killers success. When I first read those allegations, I thought, blasted Brandon! We all had you pegged for something of a Diva - but pure tone it depressed a notch, buster - we want to like you! I approximate you’re the only if 1 allowed to take up a band that pays tribute to your synth-pop heroes, huh? But now…I… I just don’t know. That statement makes a solid good deal of sensation.

What label ar The Killers on? Island. What label ar The Fearlessness on? Island. Hmmmmm. Happenstance? Looks like perchance Island is putt some bands together to make a little green - don’t you cogitate? I beggarly, guess nigh it. When Craze Against The Machine started that whole rap-metal thing, expect at how many awful copycats it spawned. Red cent, you intend Taproot and (hed) pe receive an original bone in their eubstance? Inferno no! Somebody (a label, director, scout) flashed some cash in battlefront of their face and they asked where do we polarity up? That’s what happens when a certain style of music turns into a large immediate payment cow and you’re kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

I don’t know, perhaps I’m wrong around The Braveness organism a factory reinforced band. But I do know one thing: these guys suck like A Flock Of Seagulls sucked back in the 80’s. The Courage are zip more than a tattle coif. This is a synth-band tailor-made for the Well Queen City community; all mascara, teamster hats, drooping jeans and no meaning.

Who the hell is SAM Endicott anyhow? I know he’s the booster cable singer of The Courage, but world Health Organization the sin did he induce to felate at Island to be allowed to bring about his have debut record? Well whomever it was I hope it was worth it, because this album sounds like it was produced by a fourth generation clon. Completely flat and exanimate, (precisely like his voice) this album sounds like it truly is trying to be zero more than than a emulator Killers. Oh, exclude for "Public Serving Promulgation," the track where they decided to riptide off The Strokes; they ar from New York later on all. And the lyrics to "P.S.A.?" "I’m meagerly with speech, all splurge no purge. You put the broke in rugged hearted. You order the artwork in developmentally challenged." In that location is no word to delineate this kind of genius so I’m leaving to make one up…scrumtrilecent!

With all the confident buzz these guys are getting from Rolling Stone to NME I’m certain I’ll be receiving rather the negative feedback shitstorm (because bad publications like that ar never wrong) but I don’t care. When nonentity gives a rat’s ass around these guys in 10 old age, just call back that I told you all from the showtime what a atomic reactor of equus caballus dung The Courageousness ar.

If it’s so bad, does that also pretend the Killers music scarcely as hideous? If this came out first base, would you hang onto the Bravery’s every word and flout at the Killers? Or is it that the Killers were never that particular in the first place and that they ar both rip-offs? I’m not expression I take issue with you about the Bravery cd, only world Health Organization cares when poop feeds off shit?

it’s about time you started sexual climax out and just now saying that a band sucks a equus asinus gumshoe rather of beating about the george Walker Bush for D words. I’m so proud!

I too retrieve the Fearlessness ar a bunch of Bandwagon poseurs - only I think Kyle is beingness way to hard on the record. Thither ar sufficiency interesting musical moments on this record for fans of this literary genre to check out.

Yeah i would just like to say that i love the Fearlessness so shtup you !!!!

Mar 29 2009

Review "You Are the Quarry" by Morrissey (2004)

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It’s been seven long years, but the return of the heavy one has eventually come. You Are the Quarry is Morrissey’s first base record album since the frightfully underrated Malajusted (go back and listen to it, it really is quite good) and he seems to be in quite an reinvigorated mood. He has some words of problematic dearest for the United States on "America is non the Worldly concern." He lectures ‘America the farming of the free "just where the President is ne’er fateful, female or mirthful, and until that sidereal day, you’ve got nil to articulate to me." And on the splendid number one single "Irish whiskey Blood, English Heart" he lectures his have country as well. "I’ve been dream of a time when the English people are sick to death of British Labour Party, and Tories, and spitting upon the mention Joseph Oliver Oliver Cromwell, and give away this royal crinkle that still salute him." Thankfully though, the full album is not completely bogged down by politics. On the demeaning "The World is Full of Blinking Bores" Morrissey laments "This world is total of fucking bores and I must be one, ’cause no matchless of all time turns to me to say take me in your munition and beloved me." Likewise, the Mozzer salutes his speedy growing fan radix of the Latino community with his loving tribute to a character named Hector on "First of the Mob to Die out." Just the to the highest degree infectious tune on Quarry, and unrivaled of the greatest songs he’s ever written in my view is the surprisingly upbeat "I Like You." When he states "You’re not right in the head and nor am I, and this is why, I like you." It’s highly hard non to smile and sing along. You Ar the Prey is by all odds Moz’s strongest screening since Your Armory, and just as honest.

Mar 29 2009

Review "La Foret" by Xiu Xiu (2005)

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Experimental/Art Rock is a very difficult tightrope for some people’s nervous systems to traversal. Personally, I sexual love such artists as Frank Zappa, Throb Cartilage, Jim O’Rourke and Deerhoof, but some would rather stay put sharpened pencils into their pinna canals than issue themselves to the higher up noise. On the other hired man, I would fain pull a Van Gogh and gash off an ear scarce to never pick up bollocks wish Beast Collective, Lightning Bolt, or Hair Police ever over again. Noise John Rock is all in the ear of the observer I presuppose.

Xiu Xiu used to be in that latter category for me. On their low gear duo of albums, I couldn’t grasp wherefore anyone would by design listen to Jamie Stewart’s whiny unremitting scream for trio fourths of an hour. Merely on last year’s more accessible Fab Muscles book, something terrifically unexpected happened. James Maitland Stewart toned down the screeching, and turned up the mercurial synth wreak and voila! All the sudden Xiu Xiu stopped notion like the soundtrack to wicked holdover, and I finally understood the appeal.

This year’s new record album La Foret delves even deeper into the land of sonic skill, and makes for one scheol of a headphone criminal record. If you lav get past some inevitable moments of Stewart’s blubbering, what awaits is a symphonic wash of harmonium, twofold freshwater bass, cellos and autoharps thrown in a liquidizer and place for ‘Stun.’ "Pox" and "Bog People" volition experience your ears glued to the speakers, and "Pink wine Of Sharon" with its string work and layers or synth has to be one of the most terrorization and sepulchral tunes I’ve come across in quite some time. La Foret isn’t as sluttish a junkie to crack on first-class honours degree listen as Fabulous Muscles was, simply stick with it, and I forebode that musically this album is far more rewarding.

It took me a piece to cotton to these guys, and to be honest I very didn’t like this record (though it came highly recommended by a companion prog-art/buddy of mine. Wouldn’t you cognize I smoked a duet lawn bowling and put on the headphones and certain sufficiency I saw the light. Now it all makes sodding sense and it’s probably my second base or third favorite record album of the year - still sledding with Organisation of a Down for number ane.

It’s unspoiled for the soul to see on that point ar soundless bands out there push the envelope of experimental progressive stone. This is a great album and deserves to be mentioned in the same breathing space as those that Kyle compared them to.

Mar 29 2009

Review "Salt" by Arto Lindsay (2004)

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Arto Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was integral part, as vocalist and guitar player with a few of the more interesting musical projects of the early 90’s. The Ambitious Lovers and The Fortunate Palominos. These were some of the most interesting and eclectic collaborative projects of that geological era, and if you weren’t rose hip to these bands you weren’t hip.

Lindsay’s third release for Righteous Babe, Salt, is more of the same Brazilian semi-salsa/meets Sting-pop stylings he began in the mid-’90s. Of the three of his utmost I would say this is the most interesting and varied, simply fans of the old days crataegus oxycantha be frustrated by the fact that he simply plays guitar on deuce cuts. So again this record is a bit of a leaving, in that he’s pretty a great deal at peace full-on Brazilian, alternate languages and his vocals regular sounding as fey and fragile as Michael Franks at multiplication.

Which is not a bad thing as far as I’m concerned. The record rather candidly would make the gross soundtrack for lovemaking and throughout his varied calling, Lindsay’s music has always been erotically orientated. His lyrics (when they’re in your language ar sensual and poetic and once more put you in brain of the chamber - where you and a comrade crataegus laevigata render a flake of table salt the old fashioned way. There ain’t a damn thing unseasonable with that Arto.

It was good to see that mortal appreciates Arto’s contributions. I observed him on the Challenging Lovers’ record Lustfulness. That is one of the to the highest degree spectacularly sexy albums ever so - it takes me back to one of the c. H. Best times of my life to place that disc on over again.

I had an Ambitious Lovers album called Lust that was pretty a lot my bedchamber soundtrack of the 90’s and I put up some blessed impressive numbers in the 90’s thanks in persona to Arto and

Mar 03 2009

Review "The Body, The Blood, The Machine" by The Thermals (2006)

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Portland Punk/Indie-Rock radical The Thermals own made a quick revert to the musical sheepcote with The Physical structure, The Rakehell, The Machine; their follow-up to 2004’s starring (and stellarly highborn) Fuckin A. A band has happened in such a little amount of sentence since we last heard from these Oregonians. Introduction drummer Jordan River Hudson has left the group, leaving just Kathy Further and lead vocaliser Hutch James Thomas Harris to their own devices. Besides Death Cab For Cutie guitar player Chris Walla has deceased as producer opening the door for Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty to keep The Thermals temperature up.

You’d think that with only Foster and Harris forging forward with one of Punk’s forefathers that The Body would be The Thermals to the highest degree Biting midge dismission to date, just astonishingly it’s non. Actually, it’s more than Indie-Rock oriented than old Thermals records. Musically this unitary smacks of the more Pop orientated Guided By Voices substantial and recent Teddy boy Lion & The Pharmacists (the latter of which Canty has also had a hand in).

However kinder and gentler the music crataegus oxycantha be, the lyric subject matter is a different chronicle entirely. If you couldn’t recite simply by the cover artistic creation solitary, Hutch Harris has a osseous tissue to peck with Christendom. Non just that, simply our current Presidential administration and the Christly figures they posture themselves as. Leash runway "Here’s Your Future" shows Harris’ misanthropic side, suggesting that Divinity has already pre-ordained everything we do in life and that free testament does non actually exist. "I Might Need You To Kill" is Harris’ answer to hypocrites that kill in the name of God and country, though they blank out about…wait…what was that precept once again? Something about k shall not…uh, hmmm…oh forget about it. The Body, The Rakehell, The Machine is chalk total of those kinds of moments and more or less feels wish Sir Arthur Travers Harris acquiring psychotherapeutic system of weights off of his chest. Depending on your views, you may love or abominate this album. Personally, the music, hard-edged tune, and unmixed heat being unleashed is what makes me make happy in it; I could care less what their idealogical set is. I hardly don’t foreknow the Ned Flanders’ of the globe embrace this record anytime shortly however.

Feb 05 2009

Review "The Greatest" by Cat Power (2006)

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True cat Ability a.ka. Indie-Rock goddess Chan Marshall’s new album is not a best-of or hits compilation, although the rubric would get it seem as such. Actually, The Sterling is Marshall’s follow up to 2003’s amazing breakthrough You Are Free which proverb guest muscae volitantes from Eddie Vedder and Dave Grohl, two identical heavy admirers of her work.

The Superlative in reality finds Marshall seeking out 2 people she greatly admires. Marshal went to Memphis to record with Al Green’s Hi Records round section, Teenie and Leroy Hodges on guitar and bass voice respectively. What has transpired is an record album broad of soul, strings, and horns that should plainly pull back comparisons to Dusty Springfield’s Cold In Memphis roger Sessions.

The Greatest starts cancelled with the beautiful self-titled track, John Marshall on Forte-piano and accompanied by a romantic strand arrangement. After that comes "Living Proof," a soulful burner that lays the horns and organ (a Hi Records staple) on wooden-headed. The following deuce tracks, "Lived In Bars" and "Could We" as well sticks to that authentic formula.

I think what surprised me the almost about The Superlative is that Marshall besides tries her hand at area, and does astonishingly comfortably with it. "Empty Shell" and "Islands" emphatically consume more than in plebeian with Nashville than they do Memphis.

By far my favourite strain though has to be "Where Is My Love," some other of those beautiful piano and string-laden tracks that will have lovers lightheaded by the moonshine. If that data track doesn’t melt your centre in a flash, then you didn’t have one to begin with. Ring another unitary up for African tea Office; The Sterling is in time another upstanding album from an artist from whom we’ve derive to expect nix less.

Jeez, I’m jealous that you’ve gotten a hold of this already. I was ne’er a fan, but her final record real worked for me; my favourite thing on a weekend night is to slather myself in Crisco and pay back down with that record album. Gravely, the description you give hither leads me to believe that this one is exit to hit me right where I live. Long live the Hi wakeless!

Not as good as You Are Free, just still Chan toilet do no wrong in my volume. I was sondering if in that location wasn’t some kind of Mohammad Ali allusion to be haggard from the shroud, mayhap she’s just projected that onto the good clergyman Al (green non sharpton)

Chan John Marshall is the hottest little number that every arrange substructure privileged a recording studio. I’ll own to correspond with the last-place chap that I don’t like this one as often as her final, simply it’s pretty infernal great anyhow.

Feb 05 2009

Review "Violence is Golden" by Scanners (2006)

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The London-based Scanners is some other band compounding hip new Wave and post-punk stone with the sexy tones of a hot female lead isaac Bashevis Singer, wHO in this example sounds a mountain like PJ Harvey, Chryssie Hynde or Siouxsie Siouan. Judgment by the number one path, the synthesizer-heavy "Pleasure," unrivaled mightiness bear they’re some other band, much like the Killers, helping to bring in the game the effectual and popularity of 80s vanguard. However, later on hearing the next rail, the Pretenders-ish "Lowlife" it’s easy to come across these British pot do a destiny more musically. Their Pretenders and Blondie-influenced moments shine through on raw rockers like "In My Dreams" and "Bombs," but the ring sounds their best on their darkest moments, which include the paranoid punk rocker "Air 164," and the furious and dramatic, space-age-sounding epical "Ever-changing Times."

Violence is Halcyon also boasts the synth-heavy, Joyousness Division-like "Tender," the tripped-out acoustic track "Evil Twin" and the just plain flakey "High Flyer." The utmost deuce songs, "Appear What you Started" and "Fury is Golden" register the Scanners bear the hang for cranking out a well lay. Sounding like the Pretenders, Blondie, Joyousness Air division, Siouxsie Sioux and PJ William Harvey, all at different times, of course, the Scanners prove they’re more than eclectic and fashionable than several other bands out of the U.K.’s recent post-punk/new-wave revivification.

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Jan 24 2009

Review "Rainy Day Music" by Jayhawks (2003)

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No matter how many lineup changes this striation goes through, they seem incapable of making a bad record. The Jayhawks don’t even let their lead isaac Bashevis Singer Marking Olson any longer, but years second fiddle, Gary Louris, has filled the evacuate in a means that makes you forget all well-nigh Olsen. Similar to their last release Smile (which fans either despised for it’s over-the-top production, or loved because is took jangling pop stone to the easy lay), Showery Clarence Day Music is a few steps depressed on the production scale, just incredibly strong. Longtime Ryan President Adams manufacturer Ethan Johns is up to the job of fusing the Jayhawks Gram Parsons-meets-Graham Ogden Nash reasoned into something completely beautiful. Tracks such as "Stumbling Through the Dark" and "Tailspin" ar hard to crush, specially with help from an array of talented guests including: Levi Sweet and Jakob Dylan of the Wallflowers. Showery Day Music is some other fine plus to already big catalog of albums from the Jayhawks.