Monday, November 13 2006
Various Artists: The Source Presents Fat Tape Compilation Volume One
These thug tales provide an escape from the safety of the suburbs. Danger lurks everywhere on the songs here.
Sunday, November 12 2006
Sven Libaek: Inner Space: The Lost Film Music of Sven Libaek
There's a lightness of touch and a breezy, jazzy atmosphere to these 12 Sven Libaek Australian film-score compositions from the '60s and '70s.
Ira: The Body And The Soil
Germany's Ira is a group that wants to rock out, but ends up plodding along.
Friday, November 10 2006
Tim Hecker: Harmony in Ultraviolet
While “Whitecaps of White Noise” is in fact the title of a standout two-part suite for static and disintegrating synthesizer from Tim Hecker’s latest release,…
Red Sparowes: Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Red Sun
The Red Sparowes’ Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Red Sun contains elements that are driving building to elements that are fast, and the resultant…
Dr. Dog: Takers and Leavers
Five guys and six songs equals 23½ minutes of rambling, lo-fidelity pop. The EP is fun in a goofy way.
Thursday, November 9 2006
Bryan Estepa: All The Bells And Whistles
Aussie artist Bryan Estepa sounds like he's grown up on a healthy dose of The Jayhawks and Uncle Tupelo.
Dark Globe: Nostalgia for the Future
Many people claim that the members of Dark Globe created the first breakbeat album when they released Mondo Scurro, but on their latest record, Nostalgia…
No Wait Wait: About You
The dark About You is at its best when it mixes fragile country-rock in with the bigger pop-rock sound.
Wednesday, November 8 2006
Sol’Jibe: Marinero
Do not write these guys off just because they are a world music jam-band from Las Vegas; they are actually really good, quite ambitious, and…
The Carolina Chocolate Drops: Dona Got a Ramblin Mind
This young trio is dedicated to carrying on the traditions of the African-American fiddle and banjo music that hails, as they do, from the piedmont of North Carolina.
Isis + Aereogramme: In The Fishtank 14
In their ongoing In the Fishtank series, the good people at Konkurrent have once again brought together two unlikely bands for a collaborative recording. In…
Chamellows: Rat Hearts
It's the sound of decay, and of deliberate destruction; it's the musical equivalent of those artworks for which the artist draws a picture and then scribbles over it, or piles up an assemblage of rubbish and branches.
Tuesday, November 7 2006
The Defectors: Give In And Creep Out With The Defectors
If you own the Defectors’ 2004 release, Turn Me On!, you’d be forgiven for thinking you were experienceing deja vu while reading about Give In…
Ronnie Day: The Album
Ronnie Day’s second album is along the lines of fellow younger musicians like Teddy Geiger. But it doesn’t distract from the fact he can pen…
The Bird and the Bee: Again and Again and Again and Again
Gorgeous and easy female-vocal pop debut EP bodes well for the 2007 full-length.
Feathers: Synchromy
This mixture of solid groove and irregular sounds almost becomes as good as it keeps suggesting it could be.
