the Breeders: Title TK August 27, 2023I’ll be honest, this Breeders album totally passed from my memory. Or perhaps I never really heard it...
Pixies: Head Carrier October 17, 2016Pixies are a pretty large touchstone for me in my musical evolution. It honestly started back in 1989...
Chick Lead Singers March 2, 2015I realize, scanning my music collection, that I have very few albums by bands that are fronted by...
Pixies: Bossanova March 19, 2008It’s not a good sign that they open the album with an instrumental. I don’t really like instrumentals....
Pixies: Come on Pilgrim August 15, 2007I’m not sure what’s up with all the foreign language stuff, but this debut by a weird college...
Pixies: Doolittle June 26, 2007“Debaser” is my second favorite Pixies song. I f’n love it. I will play it on any jukebox...
Pixies: Surfer Rosa March 14, 2007From the opening downbeat of “Bone Machine,” Surfer Rosa’s first track, you know this album is gonna kick...
Pixies: Trompe le Monde January 12, 2007They’ve obviously turned the page here. Where as Bossanova sounded tired, Trompe le Monde sounded refreshed. Refreshed—but different. It’s...
Guided by Voices: Half Smiles of the Decomposed August 24, 2005I like it! It’s been a while since I’ve actually tapped my toe and/or bobbed the old head...
Guided by Voices: Earthquake Glue August 20, 2003This is oddly a bit of a return to form of sorts. Again, Pollard dials it back (to...
Guided by Voices: Universal Truths and Cycles June 19, 2003GBV has subtly moved back into a lo-fi groove. Granted, it’s not all tape hiss and broken songs,...
Guided by Voices: Do the Collapse May 22, 2003I must admit that I heard “Teenage FBI” on the radio about a week before this album came...
Guided by Voices: Isolation Drills April 4, 2003That’s a little more like it. After the debacle that was Do the Collapse, Isolation Drills gets back to...
Guided by Voices: Mag Earwhig! February 13, 2003For some reason the first song on this album reminds me of that terrible King Missile song, “Detachable...
Guided by Voices: Under the Bushes Under the Stars December 23, 2002Whoa there. Who is this? Apparently this is Kim Deal of the Pixies’ idea of what GBV should...
Guided by Voices: Alien Lanes September 26, 2002There they go. They’ve taken a baby step towards sounding like professionals. Still sounding homemade, but coming to...
Guided by Voices: Bee Thousand April 28, 2002Ah, here’s the album that Propeller and Vampire on Titus promised to deliver! Granted, the horrible sound quality...
Guided by Voices: Propeller January 15, 2002Sigh. This is going to be a pretty crazy undertaking, going through GBV’s entire discography (or at least...
