Tuesday, March 30 2010
Love Is All: Two Thousand and Ten Injuries
Punkish, post-pop Swedes tackle the dreaded third LP with a few changes to their sound, but not enough to get us worried.
Thursday, January 22 2009
Part 2: Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu
From Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu, PopMatters presents our second batch of Slipped Discs, 40 great albums that didn't quite make our year-end list in 2008, but our writers thought belonged there.
Tuesday, November 11 2008
Love Is All: A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night
Love Is All remains determinedly buoyant on its sophomore album, hiding disappointment in veiled reference, and undermining the brightness of its melodies with the trademark atonal screech of saxophone and guitar.
Wednesday, July 16 2008
Love Is All
Live, Love is All is akin to a cavalry charge. They are both emphatic and euphoric, always crossing that musical finishing line with their arms aloft and voices raised.
Monday, April 2 2007
Various Artists: Imagine the Shapes
What's Your Rupture? compiles their prior releases for a rollicking album full of infectious angst and giddy angularity.
Tuesday, March 7 2006
Love Is All: Nine Times That Same Song
Luke Jenner of The Rapture totally owned my conception of the phrase 'love is all'. Now, theres another group's laid claim to it with indisputable authority.
