Articles By: Aaron Peart 
If Aaron hadn't chosen to snowboard for the rest of his life, music would easily fill that hole. Avid gig-goer when finances and scheduling allows, he has seen everyone from Del tha Funky Homosapien to the Rolling Stones to Sharon Jones. An off-the-cuff writer, he started writing after he realised he would forget main aspects of the topic he spoke about... turned out he liked it. His non-musical musings can be found at the link below where you never really know what will come up. And yes. He is related to Neil.
Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits album review
There’s a new arrival on the scene in the shape of Divine Fits. Comprised of Spoon’s Britt Daniels, Handsome Furs’ Dan Boeckner, and Sam Brown of the legendary garage punk band New Bomb Turks, they formed when their respective bands took some downtime. They played a surprise debut at a show in Austin, TX, and haven’t looked back. Their resulting debut, A Thing Called Divine Fits sounds as if Calvin Harris rewrote ‘London Calling”, a brash take on dance music [...]
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Sink Ships – Half the Boy EP review
This assignment is why I write music reviews. This is what excites me. Finding a release, out of the blue, that makes sense in its own right. Sink Ships’ “Half the Boy” EP is what country should sound like. It’s not about chicks that drink whisky and smile at you across the dancefloor, it’s not about Texas or trucks, but it’s exactly what country should sound like in this day and age. As a matter of fact, the EP was [...]
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Birds & Batteries – Stray Light album review
Birds & Batteries are veterans in the business, maybe not in terms of time but certainly in their amount of releases, and their quality. Their website hosts no less than 4 LPs, all of which are playable. The band has this energy that they manage to capture in many of their songs, even the slower ones. You can’t help but move to it. Woven together with some great storytelling and memorable lines (Wild fires will burn out loud/Like a style, [...]
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Fake Your Own Death – Invisible and Bulletproof album review
One of the more exciting bands to emerge from California in the last couple of years, Fake Your Own Death released their debut album, Invisible and Bulletproof to wide approval. The band has a sound not unlike the Departure, or, more famously, Interpol. With just 8 tracks on the album, this is a nice one to sit down to; you don’t feel like you’re committing a lot to an unknown band. The erstwhile downcast tone of lead singer Terry Ashkinos [...]
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The Pineapple Thief – What We Have Sown album review
I’ve never understood the concept of remastering an album only a couple of years after the original release date, particularly when no new material has been included. This is also apparently more and more irrelevant as the Digital age slowly but surely does away with physical copies, and by proxy the packaging so coveted by hardcore fans. Perhaps it’s because The Pineapple Thief (frontrunner for Best Band Name of the Year) has a new album, All The Wars, out in [...]
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Múm – Early Birds album review
I can’t pronounce any of the tracks on Múm’s album Early Birds. I don’t speak Icelandic. Neither, apparently, does iTunes, because all the track names are filled with question marks and odd Cyrillic letters. That doesn’t mean this isn’t a good album, a compilation of the first half of their history in the Biz; rare, previously unreleased material, with a couple of lost tracks thrown in for good measure. Here’s what’s clear: Iceland knows experimental electronic music. Take Póst póstmaður, [...]
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Stellar Winds – Nights at the Nest album review
Stellar Winds’ Nights at the Nest came out last month, and it takes a different approach to most other indie rock out there by employing a piano as a main instrument. This technique results in a higher class of EP, something you could listen to in the morning while you prepare for your stressful office job, or to impress the girl you brought back to your place after Happy hour with the guys. And at 7 tracks, it’s just enough [...]
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The Fixx – Beautiful Friction album review
Kids, the 80s was a weird time. Boys were wearing makeup, girls had big hair and padded shoulders, everyone was putting powder up their nose, and computers, while a far cry from the dubstep phenomenon of today, were being used in recording for the first time. Bands like Joy Division, Depeche Mode, and New Order became popular for their somewhat melancholy take on life in England in the late 70s and early 80s. And they were hugely popular. The Fixx [...]
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Delicate Steve – Positive Force album review
Delicate Steve’s “Positive Force” is exactly that. I truly love reviewing albums that have little to no lyrics. As a writer, it’s easy to get caught on what the artist or group is literally saying with words and what they mean by it, rather than how they choose to say it with music. As such, a largely instrumental album such as Delicate Steve’s “Positive Force” allows a writer to flex his or her muscles as an objective critic. “Delicate” Steve [...]
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Nada Surf – Live at the Bowery Ballroom EP review
Indie pop darlings Nada Surf release a live EP that manages to capture all of the electricity of the actual concert. For extra oomph, the ENTIRETY of the show is on Youtube, which I had to check out after hearing the album; the EP contains the highlights. It has but 6 tracks: Whose Authority, Jules and Jim, When I was Young, High Speed Soul, See These Bones, and Always Love, recorded January 24th of this year to celebrate the release [...]
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