2008 Album of the Year: Cut Copy/In Ghost Colours
Sections: Music Reviews Jan 3rd, 2009 No Comments
Hands down the best piece of music I’ve heard all year.
Section: Music
Music Reviews for Summer/Fall ‘08
Sections: Music Reviews Dec 17th, 2008 No Comments
This is way way overdue….
- The Cool Kids / Bake Sale / 4.0
- Oasis / Dig Out Your Soul / 3.0
- Okkervil River / The Stand Ins / 4.0
- Dandy Warhols / Welcome To The Monkey House / 2.5
- The Rapture / !K7 Tapes / 3.0
- Health / Disco (V3) / 2.5
- A.A. Bondy / American Hearts / 4.0
- The Cool Kids / Bake Sale / 3.5
- Mystery Jets / Twenty One / 3.5
- Spiritualized / Songs in A&E / 4.0
- White Denim / Workout Holiday / 3.0
- Deastro / Keeper’s / 3.0
- Beck / Modern Guilt / 4.0
- Weezer / Weezer (The Red Album) / 1.0
- Nôze / Songs On The Rocks / 3.0
- The Charlatans / You Cross My Path / 3.0
- Mark Ronson / Version / 4.0
- Ryan Adams / Heartbreaker / 3.0
- Drive-By Truckers / The Dirty South / 3.0
- Art Brut / It’s A Bit Complicated / 2.5
- Vampire Weekend / Vampire Weekend / 4.0
- Yelle / Pop Up / 4.0
- The Presets / Apocalypso / 3.0
- Cut Copy / In Ghost Colours / 4.5
It’s not the best Weezer song of all time, but it may be the best video
Sections: Music May 26th, 2008 2 Comments
Early Frontrunner for Album of the Year
Sections: Music Reviews Apr 16th, 2008 1 Comment
…In Ghost Colours by Cut Copy. More from Pitchfork:
From the first swirling synths and gleaming melodies of curtain raiser “Feel the Love”, In Ghost Colours asserts itself as a hugely magnanimous record. Everything here sounds stadium-sized, loved-up, and breezily inclusive. There’s the lead single “Lights & Music”, an arena rock slow burner with a disco chorus; or the superb, helicoptering house of 2007 single “Hearts on Fire”, which gets a welcome reprise; or the sunburst rock of “Unforgettable Season”, which recalls Broken Social Scene in its ability to sound in full swoon from chord one; or the carefree “Strangers in the Wind”, whose lazy verse and torpid guitar peels owe a little bit to Fleetwood Mac. Elsewhere, “So Haunted” and “Far Away” compete for standout track status, the former sandwiching verses of fuzzy guitar squall around one of the most gorgeous-sounding choruses of the year, the latter an effervescent bit of 80s synth fluff that holds up against the best of Human League and Erasure.
Such. A. Great. Album. I don’t often agree word for word with a Pitchfork review but I simply can’t say it better. If this doesn’t end up being the album of the year, it has to already be the album of the summer… in April.
Hercules and Love Affair
Sections: Music Mar 13th, 2008 1 Comment
The reviews are in and it looks like the debut album from Hercules and Love Affair will be on a shortlist of 2008 best releases.
I’ve been waiting for this album seemingly forever. Like LCD’s last one I was determined to actually buy it and listen to it as an album first. But the March 25th release date was just too hard to take so I bought an MP3 version from a store in the UK where it was already released.
Initial thoughts… it’s less immediately likable as the notable 2007 LCD release Sound of Silver but it’s certainly as interesting.
Album of the Year
Sections: Music Reviews Dec 30th, 2007 No Comments
2007 was a great year for music but one album stood out to me as 2007’s best:
Album Art of the Year
Sections: Music Reviews Dec 30th, 2007 No Comments
BTW the album as a whole is excellent with one stand-out track that could have easily been song of the year.
Led Zeppelin Reunites to Positive Reviews
Sections: Music Dec 11th, 2007 No Comments
From the New York Times:
At the O2 arena here on Monday night, in its first full concert since 1980 — without John Bonham, who died that year, but with Bonham’s son Jason as a natural substitute — the band found much of its old power in tempos that were more graceful than those on the old live recordings. The speed of the songs ran closer to those on the group’s old studio records, or slower yet. “Good Times Bad Times,” “Misty Mountain Hop,” and “Whole Lotta Love” were confident, easy cruises; “Dazed and Confused” was a glorious doom-crawl.
…The excitement in the hall felt extreme, and genuine; the crowd roars between encores were ravenous.
[ Led Zeppelin Finds Its Old Power ] New York Times
Fall Music Reviews
Sections: Music Reviews Dec 9th, 2007 1 Comment
My apologies for this list being so long and not having done it sooner. Work has unfortunately been running my life lately. Luckily I can still listen to music.
Heavy Trash / Get Way Out with Heavy Trash / 4.0
MIA / Kala / 3.0
Eagles of Death Metal / Death by Sexy / 3.0
Ambulance Ltd / LP / 4.0
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club / Baby 81 / 3.0
Cold War Kids / Robbers & Cowards / 3.5
The Dandy Warhols / Odditorium / 3.5
Neil Young & Crazy Horse / Live at the Fillmore East / 4.0
Yeasayer / All Hour Cymbals 3.5
Animal Collective / Strawberry Jam / 3.75
Band of Horses / Cease to Begin / 3.25
Beck / Timebomb (single) / 4.5
Black Devil Disco Club / 28 After / 3.0
Calvin Harris / I Created Disco / 3.75
Caribou / Andorra / 4.0
LCD Soundsystem / A Bunch of Stuff EP / 4.0
LCD Soundsystem / 45:33 (release) / 4.75
New Young Pony Club / New Young Pony Club / 3.5
Radiohead / In Rainbows / 4.25Shocking Pinks / Shocking Pinks / 4.25
A Sunny Day in Glasgow / Scribble Mural Comic Journal / 4.0
The Tough Alliance / A New Chance / 3.5
VHS or Beta / Burning On the Comets / 2.5
White Williams / Smoke / 4.5
5 - classic / 4 - excellent / 3 - good / 2 - mediocre / 1 - not worth rating
Are the Floodgates About to Open?
Sections: Music, Site News Oct 9th, 2007 4 Comments
It’s about time musicians deal with the label’s greed head-on.
And for what it’s worth I actually did pay Radiohead (about the price of a CD) for my digital download of their new album.
Somebody Quick, Sign that Jug Player…
Sections: Music, Web Clips Sep 29th, 2007 2 Comments
13th Floor Elevators’ and their big hit “You’re Gonna Miss Me” (via You Aint No Picasso).
