Big Red Machine: Big Red Machine September 12, 2018Imagine, if you will, TV On The Radio on quaaludes. Or Channel Orange after smoking a particularly potent...
Menomena: Moms December 23, 2012I honestly had very little hope for this album. After all, the guy I assumed was the creative...
WU LYF: Go Tell Fire to the Mountain June 25, 2011I’m honestly not sure if these guys are singing in English or what. It sounds more like a...
TV on the Radio: Nine Types of Light June 6, 2011It took me quite a while to get into this band. Despite having almost too much indie and...
Menomena: Mines August 12, 2010I declare albums ‘album of the year!’ on a regular basis. Actually, I’m often disappointed by much of...
Swan Lake: Enemy Mine May 19, 2009This album comes roaring out of the gates with “Spanish Gold, 2044,” one of my favorite songs of...
Menomena: Friend and Foe February 6, 2009Like a whacked out Flaming Lips (if that’s possible), Menomena mixes keys, horns and mostly atmosphere on an...
Swan Lake: Beast Moans April 19, 2008Look, it’s a Destroyer album! Psyche. There’s no mistaking Dan Bejar’s voice, and this album starts off with...
White Whale: WWI February 6, 2008For some reason the opening moments of this album remind me of INXS. I can’t say exactly why,...
The Aquarium: The Aquarium October 27, 2007I listened to snippets of this album before downloading it, and thought it sounded pretty cool with its...
Karate: Pockets September 21, 2004Two albums removed from their coming out party as a jazz band, these guys have brought in the...
Karate: Unsolved October 25, 2000So this is what emerges from the cocoon. With their album, In Place of Real Insight, they took...