Sometimes there is only so much peer pressure a guy can take before he breaks. And so it went with Charlie Bliss' new album, Guppy. Donald Trump was even suppla...
This was my first experience with Death Cab. As well it should be, as it's their debut album. Being a fan of Built to Spill, someone suggested I take a listen t...
I like that they tried some different tempos and rock-ness on this album. There were certainly times on the first two when pretty became sleepy became downright...
This thing was sandwiched between We Have the Facts and The Photo AlbumLPs, and it kind of shows. It has a couple alternative versioned tracks fromWe Have the F...
I still hate the name of this band. Granted it's better than Diarrhea Planet, Ugly Kid Joe or 4 Non Blondes. But barely. Luckily their music is way better than ...
I honestly had very little hope for this album. After all, the guy I assumed was the creative brain behind the Menomena outfit, Brent Knopf, had skedaddled to p...
For this album to live, something good had to die. Brent Knopf, lead singer of one of my faves, Menomena, announced that with this Ramona Falls release, his for...
Bazan seems to condemn a lot. I suppose that’s kind of what religious folks do. But he seems to be really getting into it with his fellow human beings on this o...
So your drummer and songwriter dies after recording your debut album. It's met with decent, and deserved, accolades. It's like Vampire Weekend Jr., but much mor...
I declare albums ‘album of the year!’ on a regular basis. Actually, I’m often disappointed by much of the music I purchase. This is something different. One co-...
There is some serious sameness throughout this album. Bazan has always had an odd languid delivery that portrays kind of a sleepy but emotional outlook on the w...
As the front man for Menomena, Brent Knopf makes great sounding, big music. Ramona Falls is his solo outlet to explore his inner singer songwriter, making great...
Like a whacked out Flaming Lips (if that’s possible), Menomena mixes keys, horns and mostly atmosphere on an amazingly original sounding album. There's almost a...
It's hard to believe, after spending four years there, that anything good could come out of Syracuse. It's a gray city cursed with some of the worst weather in ...
I never get sick of this album. There's something just so familiar about it, all throwback and achingly current at the same time. It has cool drum machines and ...
It's kind of like The Rentals meet 12 Rods. I'm not sure where that gets us other than into the land of 80s retro weirdness--as if the album cover isn't enough ...
Vanderslice is a hard sell for some folks. He's this kind of mad production genius who tweaks and tweaks his emo chamber pop to within an inch of its life, howl...
Lord, Jesus, this album is not good. I wanted so badly to like this thing, but Morrison, the former lead singer of The Dismemberment Plan, decided to turn up th...
