I’ve been less than kind in my past mentions of No Age. I’ve blamed them for the drowned-in-fuzz aesthetic that came about in the late aughts that kind of swamped...
I’ve been a fan of Car Seat Headrest in the past and continue to be up to and including this album. My initial issue with it, though, is that it’s technically not...
The first time I listened to this one I'm not sure I was in the right frame of mind. I heard the initial blast of lo-fi auditory fuzz and almost immediately dis...
Starting with one of the greatest opening tracks ever, "Loser" sets the tone for an album that spans genres and breaks with the convention of what funk, hip-hop...
This is the first Sebadoh album I owned, though not their first. It starts with one of the better "fuck you" songs to an ex-bandmate ever: "The Freed Pig." Clea...
Sprout's sophomore effort starts in outer space somewhere, with a hum that made me think my headphones had broken. The rest of the album just kind of settles in...
There's no mistaking this for anything else but a Guided by Voices solo project. Granted Tobin Sprout just doesn't have the swagger in his music that Bob Pollar...
You can't even call yourself a fan of indie rock if you don't own and love this album. "Summer Babe," the opening track, is as perfect piece of slacker rock as ...
It's always difficult detangling Robert Pollard from GBV. I mean they are one and the same. So what happens when the man that is the band goes solo? And what ha...
This album starts off with "Submarine Teams," which features some sort of weird thing going on throughout the song that sounds like some crazy person shivering....
Another album of Pollard doing his thing. This, his sophomore solo effort, is a little less hissy than his debut, having a more fleshed out sound, but still fol...
This is oddly a bit of a return to form of sorts. Again, Pollard dials it back (to the future), and comes away with an album that sounds more complete and album...
For some reason the first song on this album reminds me of that terrible King Missile song, "Detachable Penis." I'm probably the only person who thinks that, an...
Whoa there. Who is this? Apparently this is Kim Deal of the Pixies' idea of what GBV should sound like (as she produced the album). I may actually go back on my...
There they go. They've taken a baby step towards sounding like professionals. Still sounding homemade, but coming to the realization that some folks want to act...
Ah, here's the album that Propeller and Vampire on Titus promised to deliver! Granted, the horrible sound quality still drives me mad at times, but what the hel...
Sigh. This is going to be a pretty crazy undertaking, going through GBV's entire discography (or at least the one's I own). This debut starts it off with a blas...
They really dial up the lo-fi on this one. Some of the songs sound as if they were recorded in Robert Pollard's shower, and are mere snippets of songs. Reminisc...
