video review
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Wasting Light is easily one of Foo Fighters’ most consistent effort in their past several albums, but it’s not resonating with me like I wanted it to. Chalk it up to the album just not being my style, I suppose. Still, I can appreciate a great studio sound when
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On their third LP, Metronomy lowers their eccentric characteristics to a simmer and gives their songwriting strenghts a workout. The track list hits with one great tune after another. And even though the sounds behind these tracks might not be fantastic, the hooks and melodies are too good not to
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After numerous revisits, this Weeknd album just isn’t sitting well with me. Though I’m all for any efforts the artists of today make to change the R&B landscape, the lyricism on this LP sticks up like an unwelcome weed. Imagine this album as an indie film,
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On their latest LP bring a lotta tunes with little cohesion. There’s a kinda shaky love song theme linking some of these tracks together, but it doesn’t stop tracks like “No Future Shock” from jumping in out of nowhere. I enjoy quite a few of the tracks here,
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Timber Timbre’s latest album is a scarily obsessive look at one man’s post-relationship trauma. The infatuation in the lyrics here runs deep, and it’s tempting to hear the record from beginning to end just to see how bad the train wreck gets. Not that lyrics and some
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Holy Ghost!’s debut LP is buff with great sounds, songs, and production value. This is not some soggy, lo-fi set of dance tracks you’d find for free on the internet somewhere. This is a crisp, lush barrage of beats and hooks. This LP is on DFA Records, and
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Trap Them’s third album won’t be a shock if you’ve heard their earlier work, but they have inched once more toward a unified sound. With Kurt Ballou at the controls again, the band has built a torturous gauntlet of twelve pounding tracks. They’ve got the intensity
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Boris’ first single from Heavy Rocks is a hefty take on the bluesy sounds metal used to have during its salad days in the 1970s. It recalls the work the band did on the original Heavy Rocks, too, which came out in 2002. It’s 9 years later and Boris
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It seemed impossible, but the Pains of Being Pure at Heart have somehow found a way to sound sweeter and more innocent than they did on their self-titled debut. This slight change in direction didn’t sit well with me on first listen, though. I was a little disappointed to
