Thursday, December 13 2007
Alter Ego: Why Not?!
Alter Ego sacrifices subtlety for silliness, sublimity for splat.
Friday, August 24 2007
Digitalism: Idealism
Digitalism truly clicks when its signature sound is all that is required to make a certain track function.
Friday, August 10 2007
Strategy: Future Rock
Strategy's vision of "future rock", it seems, derives its vocals from the vocoders of Kraftwerk, its ambience from the kraut of Can, and its groove from the spaceship Funkadelic.
Wednesday, August 8 2007
Svoy: Eclectric
Svoy has a wonderful idea of who he wants to be, but he spends so much of the album trying to live up to that standard that he seems to forget what makes his best songs so great in the first place.
Thursday, August 2 2007
Apparat: Walls
Apparat masters the art of balance, and does a bit too good a job of it.
Monday, July 23 2007
Guitar: Dealin with Signal and Noise
The most rewarding tracks on Dealin with Signal and Noise are the noisiest ones.
Tuesday, July 17 2007
Thilges: La Double Absence
La Double Absence is a lovely approximation of Persian and Afghan songcraft, with surprisingly subtle bits of electronics mixed in.
Friday, June 29 2007
Gudrun Gut: I Put a Record On
I Put a Record On is hypnotic and fascinating in all the right ways.
Wednesday, June 20 2007
Fridge: The Sun
It's rather wonderful to see that the chemistry that they've always maintained as a collective seems all but untouched by that multitude of time away from each other.
Wednesday, May 30 2007
Yvat: Chroma
Yvat's new EP Chroma sounds at least as "designed" as it does composed.
