Posts filed under “album Review”
2 Ton Bug – Wedding of the Century
2 Ton Bug have finally released an album. A real album. For the past year I’ve had to settle with the “recorded in someone’s pocket” quality of the Taylor Landesman’s Album I “found” on the internet of a live set they did. I found out about 2 Ton Bug thanks to some mini-festival in Brooklyn [...]
Teengirl Fantasy – ’7 AM’
I’ve long been a fan of the Oberlin College duo, Teengirl Fantasy. I first saw them perform during the 2008 CMJ Music Festival in a community art center at 1 PM. Logan Takahashi and Nick Weiss were sitting on the ground with their keyboards in front of them and their eyes didn’t leave their instruments [...]
The Ladies – ‘Six More Reasons to Hate The Ladies’
Six More Reasons to Hate The Ladies is like waking up after a party to find that you’ve pissed the couch only to find out that you didn’t piss the couch, someone else did and you just slept in it. Scuzzy, dirty, filthy, snotty, bratty intentionally obnoxious and you fucking love it. (NSFW Cover after [...]
School of Seven Bells – ‘Disconnect From Desire’
Disconnect From Desire, the second album from The School of Seven Bells is a difficult beast to get a handle on. It is at once a joyous celebration of life and creation and also a bit cool and distant. It is more accessible than their first album, 2008’s Alpinisms while showing a bit more maturity [...]
Pregnant – ‘Pregnant’
Pregnant’s self-titled LP on brand new Brooklyn label, Burn Books, is an incredibly strong, if at times, flawed debut. The flaws do not outweigh the whole but they do unfortunately prevent the songs from reaching the heights of which the band is plainly capable. Pregnant was formed in 2007 and consists of guitarist/lead vocalist Kevin [...]
Women – ‘No Reasons’
Got No Brains by Women No Reasons, the first album from Philadelphia band Women, sounds like it was vomited up onto the sidewalk from some Lower East Side gutter circa 1978. It oozes the filth and grime of that era while eschewing the a lot of the casual racism, misogyny and homophobia of that era’s [...]
Mickey – 12″ EP
Mickey out of Chicago wants to be dangerous rock n roll, but it comes across more like T-Birds rather than the Sharks or Jets. There’s a little too much Poison and not enough Dwarves for my tastes, but if you separate expectation of genre from what you’re actually hearing, there’s actually a good collection of [...]
Rank / Xerox – Rank / Xerox EP
Rank / Xerox came highly recommended to me by Eric of La Corde. I ordered his band’s 7” and asked if there was anyone else I should check out in his neck of the woods. He rattled of a handful of bands I didn’t know, so I went and dropped some money. The same day [...]
Quick Reviews: The Centerhits, Defektors, Black Congress, Tayisha Busay, EULA
I’m not going to lie to you, a combination of the three day weekend and the insane heatwave that we’ve experienced continuing from that weekend has made me feel quite lazy, to the point of not wanting to do ANYTHING much less write up music, but for you, I shall soldier on. The Centerhits – [...]
Sunpower – ‘Bondage’
Sunpower sounds like someone loved the Dead Kennedys and tried to go out of their way to imitate them but have since pulled back away from that track and while the guitar tone and vocal style are still there, there’s enough of a distinction that allows you to enjoy Sunpower on their own merits. Bondage [...]