Wednesday, November 9 2011
Disco Inferno: The Five EPs
The Five EPs should be a mandatory record for any collection as an example of experimentation done right.
Tuesday, September 27 2011
To Destroy a City: To Destroy a City
A pleasing debut from a Chicago post-rock outfit.
Thursday, April 28 2011
Hauschka: Salon Des Amateurs
Salon Des Amateurs is great fun and probably the most floral piece of belle époque kitsch you’ll hear all year: perfect background music for your Baudelaire reading group, but it might be a bit much for less adventurous ears.
Monday, April 25 2011
Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death: Some of Us Are In This Together
Calls to mind infinite monkeys, infinite typewriters, and feces.
Friday, February 11 2011
Wires Under Tension: Light Science
While it’s not an altogether successful enterprise, listeners can walk away from Light Science feeling that they’ve engaged in something of an alternative post-rock spectacle.
Monday, November 15 2010
Envy: Recitation
Who are Envy? Envy are Japanese post-hardcore. Are they Unwound? No. Are they At The Drive-In? No.
Thursday, October 14 2010
Woodsman’s “When the Morning Comes” (MP3 / video / tour)
The Denver quartet has a penchant for freaking all of us out pretty good.
Thursday, August 12 2010
Gifts from Enola: Gifts from Enola
Less introspective than Laura, and more overtly emotive than Explosions in the Sky, Gifts from Enola shows us the heavier side of post-rock while reminding us to stop, inhale, and release.
Tuesday, June 29 2010
To Rococo Rot: Speculation
To Rococo Rot's commitment to averting ornament has become such a refined methodology that it now seems to be the substance of many of the pieces, rather than the ideology encompassing them.
Friday, June 4 2010
Caspian: The Four Trees / You Are the Conductor EP
Naysayer journalists and irony-obsessed hipsters may be quick to declare the post-rock genre dead and buried, but they probably haven't heard The Four Trees.
