Year: 2013
Local Reviews: Gorgeous Hussies – Sweet Surrealistic Queen
Gorgeous Hussies = Third Eye Blind + The New Radicals + Sister Hazel … read more
Local Reviews: The Insurgency
The Insurgency = The Butthole Surfers + Reverend Horton Heat + The Sex Pistols … read more
Local Reviews: Lexi Sayok
Lexi Sayok = Neon Trees + Big Gun Baby … read more
Local Reviews: Pete Fintak
Pete Fintak = Nickelback + Creed + a piano – lyrical abilities … read more
Local Reviews: The Platte
The Platte = Calico + The Antlers + Bon Iver … read more
Local Reviews: Wren Kennedy
Kennedy (often seen slinging joe with Joe at nobrow coffee, or in his band Bluebird Radio) lays down some of the tightest vocal harmonies I’ve heard from a Salt Lake project. The lyrics are also of note and the recording itself, done by Kennedy, turned out great in a lo-fi way. … read more
Local Reviews: Yaotl Mictlan
After you listen to some albums, they leave you in awe, overwhelmed by the nature of greatness that has just laid claim to your auditory passages. Yaotl Mictlan’s second full-length Dentro del Manto Gris de Chaac is one of those albums. Dentro ups the extremity and pure enveloping blackness that was harshly and beautifully displayed on their debut album, but with more direct and potent songwriting that demands attentiveness to its listening experience. … read more
Local Reviews: American Hollow
I have to give American Hollow a lot of credit for their ambition. I love the fact that they have done their best to make an album that attempts to flow together seamlessly and the structures in the songs are actually some of the more creative and progressive around the local Utah scene. … read more
Local Reviews: Anthony Phan
50% of this album is 100% awesome. Where has Phan been hiding? Seriously, Stet is bursting at the seams with covetable musicianship and originality. “Reggae Macabre” could be a chill Mr. Bungle song, where Phan and his friends (there are a lot of contributers on this album) brilliantly fuse jazz and a latin dance feel with enough quirks to keep the listener not just listening, but grinning. … read more
Local Reviews: Armorie
While the arrangements of the songs on Pew Pew feel a little spastic, a little schizo, giving this record repeated listens helps to understand what the band was going for as a whole. I mean, this sounds like a few different guys getting their ideas down on a recording, experimenting with abandon and developing minor themes into entire songs. … read more