Thanya Iyer - "Rest" | Album Review
Ty Segall - "Hello, Hi" | Album Review
The Smile - "A Light For Attracting Attention" | Album Review
A Light for Attracting Attention lives an independent existence, and yet carries with it a baggage that comes from a sound that touches on OK Computer, The Bends, and even Amnesiac. The baggage is comprehensive, complex, but not weighty, because Yorke and Greenwood's cross-media paths offer an endless array of suggestions.
The Weather Station - "How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars" | Album Review
How Is It That I Should Look at The Stars thrives on its construction: played in three days in an uninterrupted jam, it gives back the naturalness of a live show, accompanied by lyrics edited in detail. We are accustomed through contemporary culture to seriality, and The Weather Station succeeds to be a point of coherence of her works.
Mike Polizze - "Long Lost Solace Find" | Album Review
Long Lost Solace Find falls within the domain of exceptionality. By being the work of a singer-songwriter connected to the world of folk, its incredibly detached from the very schemes of genre. The first work of courage is in telling, in a folk key, not the stereotype of the forest or inner peace, but rather the urban fabric of a city.
Deerhoof - "Future Teenage Cave Artists" | Album Review
Primordial and ritualistic is the sound of Deerhoof, who are faithful to their aesthetics and history. The idea of Future Teenage Cave Artists is a fascinating foothold, a handhold to a search for creativity in which every atom of chaos is meaningful and expresses the meaning of sonic exploration that is never banal.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - "Chunky Shrapnel" | Album Review
Live records are often boring, but this King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard collection finds new ground, and finds an interesting cue. The songs of the record are stylistic landscapes, aesthetic insights that touch a style that embraces from psychedelic rock albums like Gumboot Soup to the stoner metal of Infest the Rats’ Nest.
The Flaming Lips - "The Soft Bulletin: Live At Red Rocks (feat. The Colorado Symphony & André de Ridder)" | Album Review
Mikal Cronin - "Seeker" | Album Review
Thurston Moore - "Spirit Counsel" | Album Review
Thurston Moore, in line with his experimental impulse and illuminated by improvisation, builds in Spirit Counsel a test that is pure light, full of freshness. He digs into atmospheres ranging from Sonic Youth to pure black metal. The movements of the record are complex, abstract but extremely coherent with the live experience.
Frankie Cosmos - "Close It Quietly" | Album Review
The logic of DIY rarely leaves room for an unusual grace, but in Close it Quietly, the new album by Frankie Cosmos, there is room for passages and interferences of pure softness. Greta Kline seems to have found, after a long search for several LPs and albums, a structure and a clearer way to an ideal of limpid and moving beauty.
Ty Segall - "First Taste" | Album Review
The Flaming Lips - "King's Mouth: Music and Songs" | Album Review
Sonic Youth - "Battery Park, NYC: July 4, 2008" | Album Review
Battery Park, NYC: July 4, 2008 is exactly what you can expect from a band that had recorded in 1987’s Sister and 1988’s Daydream Nation. In fact there are the characteristic evolutions of the noise that make Sonic Youth so lovable. Redundancies of melancholic feedback that tell of humanity in its highest poetic form of poverty and essentiality.
Spencer Radcliffe & Everyone Else - "Hot Spring" | Album Review
The singer-songwriter plays his cards with a deep authenticity of authorship and puts his creative soul in dialogue with themes such as death, loneliness, and war. Radcliffe's vision, through the delicate sounds of guitar, cello, and effects created by the eccentric pedals, makes us feel in relation to the earth, to the terrestriality.
Big Thief - "U.F.O.F." | Album Review
Priests - "The Seduction of Kansas" | Album Review
Greer's voice has a complex chromaticity that takes shape in an exceptional way, communicating exactly the sense of uneasiness and political and social instability at the heart of the title of the work. Priests is the missing and "screaming" link in a scene that also needs showy and strong bands, at least in their choices, to assert themselves.
