Shout Out Louds – Work [Review]
Work oftentimes comes off like a scrapbook of popular indie in the Aughts. In the end, though, it’s not such a bad thing.
Helen Earth Band – (We All) Talk With Knives [Review]
The guitar lines feed off of one another in increasing complexity over ever-changing time signatures, all the while retaining a subtlety that prevents them from ever getting in the way.
Defeater – Lost Ground [Review]
But that’s why Defeater is so compelling, they don’t give into any scene-standards. It’s formula free, devoid of cliches.
Vampire Weekend – Contra [Review]
Listening to Contra is like having a hangover on a sunny day. I don’t care how happy it is, it’s too much. Slow down, try playing in a minor key, use your natural voice. Who are you, really?
Titles – Fuck It
Fuck it, I’m gone. You done me wrong. Clocking in at a minute and fifteen seconds and consisting of solely the couplet above, Titles’ “Fuck It” keeps it simple. Titles is an indie band from ...
Pollution – Black Commune [Review]
If there’s one style I’d like to see find a quiet place to die in 2010, it’s the disaffected, out-of-tune, and reverb-awashed excuse for rock music that infected Brooklyn over the last two years.