Post Tagged with: "Experimental"
Milk Teddy – Zingers album review
While listening to Milk Teddy’s debut full-length LP, Zingers, you might feel the natural urge to articulate the exact sound you are hearing by drawing comparisons to it, or thumbing through an ever-thickening glossary of sub-genres. This is a completely healthy inclination, I assure you. But when a band is concocting sounds complex enough to span chasms between pop, punk, indy, new-wave, and psychedelic genres simultaneously, you have to kind of wonder if you’re wasting your time with labels. So [...]
Dirty Projectors – About To Die EP review
Let’s get this out of the way at the start, Dirty Projectors are not a band for those that are fans of music that is accessible to the masses. Dirty Projectors are strange and as far as I can tell…they are ok with this fact. About To Die is the four song EP that follows their summer release Swing Lo Magellan is where the title track originally comes from. The rest of the EP is all new material though. Kicking [...]
Aidan Knight – Small Release album review
Canadian experimental folk artist, Aidan Knight, and his quintet of the same name released their second full-length album October 23rd, Knight’s 26th birthday. The Victoria based ensemble’s release, “Small Reveal”, sheds light on a certain form of unique talent that is lost among many modern artists. “Small Release” takes the listener on a journey through a variety of lives and perspectives, from failed marriage ballads to the longing for love by a shy grocery store clerk. The depth of each [...]
Yeasayer – Fragrant World album review
If I say that Yeasayer’s new release brings to mind images of a futuristic-electronic-R&B voyage through outer space with occasional stints in the desert—complete with Cubist wardrobe and/or perspective—then you’ll know that Fragrant World is anything but a banal experience. Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, the quintet band formed in 2006 with members Chris Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton, Anand Wilder, Ahmed Gallab, and Jason Trammell. Performing at SXSW festival in 2007 led to the release of their first album All [...]
Cement Stars – Geometrics album review
While Cement Stars just released their latest album Form and Temper a few months ago, the re-release of their first album Geometrics treats listeners to a dream pop indie rock sound with a modern twist. Brothers Shaun and Bryan Olson—originally from Chicago but based in North Carolina—formed Cement Stars in 2006, the result of a lo-fi project with individual and collaborative songwriting. In 2009, the band released their first album Geometrics after working with producer Paul Jensen. Since then, the [...]
Battles – Dross Glop album review
I remember back in the day when Limewire still existed, I downloaded anything with the label “remix” beside it. I thought remixes were the coolest things, and since I was so inept about music at the time, I loved every last one. Now that I’m not a mere toddler, I’m a little more picky. Released over a period of several months, the Dross Glop remix album by Battles featuring retuned tracks from Gloss Drop, is finally complete. Four separate vinyl releases [...]
Tanlines – Mixed Emotions album review
I was skipping around the satellite radio channels the other day, trying to find something that suited my mood. I stumbled across Tanlines for a few seconds, decided I wanted to blast some EDM like a musically inept teenage raver, and went on with my life. But was I ever glad to arrive home, check my email, and be assigned to review this album. With summer fast approaching, Tanlines’ Mixed Emotions is an experimental indie pop album that will be on [...]
Gotye – Making Mirrors album review
Though the skies stateside remain clear and cloudless, the last several years have seen a storm brewing in the artistic incubator of Melbourne, Australia. Since 2003, a talented triple-threat producer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter known as Gotye has been gaining impressive momentum and now, with 2011 and his third full-length release entitled, Making Mirrors, it’s clear the world is about to get a taste of something they won’t want to spit out. Generally speaking, a ‘producer’ will program a track because [...]
Culprate – Flatline album review
Culprate, a one man-band electronic/experimental band signed to Dubsaw records, just released his maniacal album, Flatline. I actually have no idea who Culprate is, name-wise, he’s a mystery from Watford, England. The only real thing that is not a mystery to me is the man’s music. Void of vocals besides the very rare sprinkle of sample voices like on “Curious George,” which for brief moments seems like Culprate’s insane version of Madison Avenue’s “Don’t Call Me Baby” Spawned in 2008 [...]
Human Eye – They Came From The Sky review
Imagine with me if you will, Frank Zappa sitting down and writing and album involving alien abduction, cross species impregnation, mind altering experiments and finally alien invasion. Well, that is what Human Eye’s new record They Came From The Sky precisely sounds like. This album really snuck up on me on the second listen. Human Eye has developed a sound that is saturated in guitar buzz, schizophrenic, fervor inducing hollow drums and just enough middle finger to conformity that hits [...]
