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Bonobo – The North Borders album review
Drawing heavily from his trip hop and jazz influences present on his previous four albums, Simon Green who records and performs under the name Bonobo, stays basically true to form with his latest studio release titled The North Borders, available now on Ninja Tune Records. The music begs to be played late at night, preferably after heavy drinking and exhausting shenanigans. Heavy syncopated drums loop over ambient synths and assorted other instruments to create down tempo electronica that depresses listeners [...]
The Modest Revolution – Enter The Haggis (ETH) album review
“The Modest Revolution” is based on a newspaper. For their eighth studio album, the Canadian folk rock/world fusion band went high concept – they picked a random day in the future and promised to create an album around the contents of that day’s newspaper. Call it an ode to the dying medium of print or a seemingly random choice of a concept album – though the press release explains how Enter The Haggis made the concept album, it never quite [...]
The House of Love – She Paints Words in Red album review
One of the leading British indie rock bands of the 1980s and early 1990s, the House of Love have had such a tremulous history that recounting it would take several pages (just take a peek at their Wikipedia page). However, on She Paints Words in Red, the band’s second album since they returned from a ten-year hiatus in 2003, the band appears to have mellowed with age. That isn’t a bad thing. The group’s newest effort is a melodic and [...]
Keaton Henson – Birthdays album review
Keaton Henson’s brand of guitar folk is in full swing on his latest release, the first on Anti- Records, titled Birthdays. Yet another folky singer-songwriter imported from across the pond, Henson’s album is a clear evolution from his previous album Dear which had a tendency to become bogged down in it’s own depression. On Birthdays Henson takes an extremely melodic approach and brings back his narrator -esque lyrics, opening the album with the request to “Teach me how to love [...]
Bleached – Ride Your Heart album review
It’s too bad the members of this band were not born a few decades earlier because they would have been pretty big when MTV first hit television screens back in the early 80′s. Yet their back to basics rock approach may still give them a slight advantage over most of the polished rock acts that are out today. Bleached is a band comprised of three girls and one guy (the girls play guitar and bass while the guy plays drums) [...]
Carmen Villain – Sleeper album review
Carmen Villain is as mysterious as her music. Born Carmen Hillestad, the half-Mexican, half-Norwegian chanteuse began her career as a cover model for magazines like Vogue, Marie Claire, and Nylon. She now lives in London, and has spent some time in the United States – different publications have mentioned Michigan and New York. And – despite a being covered by sites from SPIN and Pitchfork to VICE to Refinery 29 – that’s about all we know about Carmen Villain. Carmen [...]
The Mavericks – In Time album review
In Time, the latest release from Miami based country group The Mavericks follows the pattern of their earlier works where diversity is the name of the game. Mariachi horns, country melodies, and Roy Orbison-esque vocals are found throughout the record but songs are diverse and almost all bring a new theme to the table whether it is the slinky surf guitar of “Come Unto Me”, which is also recorded in Spanish as the closing track “Ven Hacia Mi” or the [...]
Deathfix – Deathfix album review
I start every review buy turning everything off except for Google and Spotify. I will Google the lyrics while listening to the album I’m covering from beginning to end, writing down tid bits of information about the songs I hear. It’s not until after listening to the album I do any research on the band itself. After enjoying Deathfix thoroughly I found out that they are sort of a supergroup. Let me explain. Brendan Canty, the front man and guitar [...]
Veronica Falls – Waiting For Something To Happen album review
After listening to the “Veronica Falls” new album titled “Waiting for Something to Happen” I was fairly satisfied with their Indie-pop style. I dug deeper into their old album “Veronica Falls,” to get a better sense of them musically and lyrically in their entirety. After some research, I found they had remained in the same genre, but something had changed. Their album from 2011, had a dark streak and lead singer Roxanne Clifford’s lyrics where nothing short of beautifully grotesque. [...]
The Milk Carton Kids – The Ash & Clay album review
With their second studio release, The Milk Carton Kids have solidified themselves as yet another 60’s folk revival group that would be as at home in Washington Square Park as onstage at your local coffee house. Simplicity is the name of the game as the group is actually a duo that combines the harmonies of Simon and Garfunkel with high range finger picking. The Ash & Clay, the duo’s first release on Anti Records, sticks to traditional folk music themes [...]
