Friday, December 9 2011
Yuck: Yuck (Deluxe Edition)
The shoegazing Brits re-release their excellent February debut album along with a bonus EP; a nice addition for fans, a must-have for the uninitiated.
Thursday, September 15 2011
IfIHadAHiFi: Nada Surf + 3 EP
IfIHadAHiFi simply craft black metallic sheets of out-of-tune punk rock that are engaging in same way that you might find horrific fascination in passing a particularly nasty car wreck on the roadside.
Thursday, March 10 2011
Gay for Johnny Depp: What Doesn’t Kill You, Eventually Kills You
This album fails to meet the basic requirements of good noise rock, despite a noticeable and honest effort.
Tuesday, May 11 2010
Serena-Maneesh: S-M 2: Abyss in B Minor
This album was meant to be a “rock ’n’ roll chamber of magic", but, in truth, the end result is more like a distorted hall of mirrors that render an otherwise skinny person into something fat and ugly.
Monday, June 8 2009
Sonic Youth: The Eternal
It's official: Sonic Youth’s Geffen days are behind them. So, too, it seems, are the pop flirtations that developed with them.
Friday, August 8 2008
Noise Bleed
The surfeit of noise in the modern world demands a genre of music that can match it, squall for squall. Humphrey reports on San Francisco's noise music scene.
Friday, September 14 2007
Health: Health
Health's first full length is loud and untamed, but artful in its deconstruction.
