Owen Pallett (formerly Final Fantasy) is an artist who progresses in huge leaps, not steps. Instead of timid shuffling, he announced himself with a confident lunge on 2005’s Has a Good Home, crafting a unique set of clever indie pop songs with little more than a violin and an army of effect pedals…
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Trent Depue |
Eight years after his most recently released studio material, the often eccentric Peter Gabriel is taking on a new and ambitious project in the form of a covers album, which will eventually see a companion record featuring all of the covered artists here performing some of Gabriel’s works. » Read More
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Kevin Hartford |
Dear Companion is a folk album that sounds like a country album, and it wouldn’t be difficult to imagine Kentucky-based singer-songwriters Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore as the opening band for alt-country acts like Ryan Adams or Jenny Lewis in her Watson Twins days. » Read More
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Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov |
With The Gaitway at SAIT set up as a seating only venue, it looked set to be a pretty chill night – even when Dan Mangan unassumingly slipped onto the stage, and started the opening notes of a slowed-down ‘Road Regrets.’ » Read More
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Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Kevin Hartford |
Malachai’s Ugly Side of Love is a throwback, in terms of both content and production. The album sounds as though it was recorded in analog and then piped through a single speaker, while the songs themselves appear to have been assembled piecemeal from a cardboard box full of ’70s vinyl. » Read More
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Rating: 1 / 5 Reviewer: Jon Roe |
It’s common practice in music these days to assuage normal vocals with auto-tuned ones and assume it’s some sort of musical innovation. Lil’ Wayne must believe that’s the case, as he brings along his auto-tune rapping for his transition from R&B beats to tired rock guitar riffs on Rebirth. » Read More
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Rating: 2.5 / 5 Reviewer: Greg Hutton |
A Chorus of Storytellers, the fifth album by Jimmy LaValle’s The Album Leaf, is not an album of extremes, but instead seems content to coast along at a fixed clip without asking too much of its listeners. » Read More
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Andrew Mitchell |
When Alan Spearhawk launched Retribution Gospel Choir in 2007, it felt like a rebellious, experimental diversion to the slowcore indie rock he’d perfected over 15 years with his band, Low. » Read More
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Rating: 4.5 / 5 Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov |
Teen Dream is just the third album in the already impressive career of Baltimore’s Beach House. With each album, the duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally grow infinitely more confident, but it’s hard to imagine how things are going to get much better than they do here. » Read More
