Destroyer is almost an idea more than it is a band. It's a thing that lives inside Dan Bejar's head. It makes almost no sense when you pull back from it, and almost less...
Vampire Weekend have always been a band out of time. Well, not out of time per se, but a band that seemingly ignored what was cool, what was trendy and what the...
As the lead singer of ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, you kind of already know what to expect on Keely's solo album. Fixed melodies isn't one ...
What the hell is going on here? That is the only question one can ask when the lispy, Scotsman whines the line "My brother had confessed he was gay to take the ...
Sounding like the title of a forgotten The Smiths album, If You're Feeling Sinister is an odd album that somehow mines the dark underpinnings of the sunny world...
This title sounds so dirty, I hardly want to pick up this album. The first track, "It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career" is a terrific little piece of pop blis...
These guys are funny. They're kids from Glenrigde, NJ who write kind of pretentious songs in the key of Paul Simon and wear ascots and play house parties full o...
John Vanderslice isn't what I would call a "happy" guy. He uses the word "alone" and "fear" quite a lot in his songs. Granted, when he first started off, both i...
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...
Have you ever seen Donnie Darko? Well, if you haven’t, then consider this a supplement to your soundtrack. Well, that mixed with a twinge of Cat Stevens’ "Troub...
It seems Mr. Condon has gone out of his way here to cut through the nostalgia and make an album that sounds, gasp, at least semi-modern. This one won’t make gra...
So we have Cursive and The Good Life. What could Tim Kasher possibly do for his solo debut? After all, those two other bands are him all over the place. It turn...
My reaction to this album was somewhat akin to my reaction the first time I heard Spoon's Girls Can Tell. It was a Spoon album, to be sure, but a Spoon album th...
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...
Stealing his cover art idea straight from Sebadoh's Bakesale, Mr. Enigk skips making another album of nursery rhymes for the mentally deranged and instead tows ...
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...
I honestly have no concept how this one ended up in my collection. I don't at all recall buying it, and don't think it would have come via a discard pile at wor...
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 ...
