Month: July 2015
Review: Desaparecidos – Payola
Desaparecidos = Against Me! + Cursive … read more
Review: Deradoorian – The Expanding Flower Planet
Deradoorian = tUnE-yArDs + St. Vincent … read more
Review: Cuushe – Night Lines EP
Cuushe Night Lines EP Cascine Street: 04.07 Cuushe = Supreme Cuts + Populous + oOOoOO Shaking off the murky, noisy and wandering tangles of earlier works and slipping into a suit of dark, rhythmic clarity, Kyoto-native Cuushe presents her four-track EP Night Lines. She keeps with her trippy, experimental foundations, but the addition of faster
Review: David Allred – Midstory
David Allred Midstory Oscarson Street: 04.20 David Allred = Peter Broderick + Nick Drake – Efterklang Barely into his twenties, California-born David Allred studied jazz early on, but then his states were expanded and, upon moving to Portland in 2013, his self-released recordings caught the ear of Peter Broderick of the darkwave folk group Efterklang. After
Review: Crocodiles – Boys
Crocodiles Boys Zoo Music Street: 05.12 Crocodiles = The Jesus and the Mary Chain + The Zombies The first track on this album, “Crybaby Demon,” got me excited enough to listen to this ditty. With simple lyrics aside, it’s a wonderful blend of fuzzy garage with the ambience of some solid psychedelic rock n’
Review: Ceremony – The L-Shaped Man
Ceremony The L-Shaped Man Matador Records Street: 05.19 Ceremony = The A Frames + Mode Moderne “Aw ma gawd, Ceremony is abandoning hardcore,” said every review I found when researching this album. Fuck the haters, this album is awesome. Is it Ceremony? Not really. It’s more akin to a goth-surf song than the powerviolence
Review: Brooklyn Gypsies – Sin Fronteras
Brooklyn Gypsies = Beats Antique + Alsarah & the Nubatones … read more
Review: Bully – Feels Like
Bully Feels Like Columbia Street: 06.23 Bully = Japandroids + Best Coast + Yuck The first thing that came to my raised-on-Disney brain upon hearing Bully was that if Ashley Spinelli from Recess—9 and donning moto boots—started a band, it would sound like this. Overwhelming at first–maybe with the volume of rock-solid grindy guitar and
Review: Bobo – Smoke In The Elevator
Bobo = Cults + Grimes / Yumi Zouma … read more
Review: Bosse-de-Nage – All Fours
Bosse-de-Nage All Fours Profound Lore Street: 04.14 Bosse-de-Nage = Deafheaven + Sannhet A common theme in early press for the new Bosse-de-Nage album is that their last release was a split 12” with fellow Bay Area black metal band Deafheaven, and not without reason. Deafheaven have significant crossover appeal and have brought black metal at