Year: 2015

Local Review: Empty-Handed – Self-titled EP

Local Review: Empty-Handed – Self-titled EP
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Empty-Handed Self-titled EP Empty-Handed = Cat Stevens + Counting Crows   This band could probably sell 3,000 copies of this EP on the U of U campus in a couple hours. “I need time to think this whole life through/I’m so sick and tired of feeling blue” warbles Empty-Handed on “This Life” while alt-countryish emo arpeggios

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Local Review: Fasba Fpel – Book LXVII—Mobile Home Manor

Local Review: Fasba Fpel – Book LXVII—Mobile Home Manor
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Fasba Fpel = Red Krayola + Jazz Fusion + June of 44 + early Pink Floyd … read more

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Local Review: Eyes on Kites – New Lens

Local Review: Eyes on Kites – New Lens
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Eyes on Kites’ most recent release, New Lens, is able to constructively take aim at a certain nostalgia—not necessarily in sound, but in feeling—and remind us of a more innocent, purer time in our lives. … read more

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Local Review: Entomb the Wicked – Mortem

Local Review: Entomb the Wicked – Mortem
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Vocalist/lead guitarist Tyler Bromberg has intriguingly diverse vocal abilities that come through in the slower tune, “Despondency,” which has a very Alice in Chains “Rooster” vibe to it. However, the rest of Mortem consists of faster, mosh-worthy death metal. … read more

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