Archive for 'Album Reviews'
[MUSIC: Album Review] Lower Dens – Nootropics
If you, like far too many people, slept on Lower Dens’ quietly acclaimed 2010 album Twin-Hand Movement, it’s worth your time to seek it out. Fronted by sometime Baltimorean freak-folkie Jana Hunter, Lower Dens play a psych-, drone- and folk-tinged rock that flies way under the radar but rewards loyal listening.
Posted: May 15th, 2012 under Album Reviews, Brag 461 (May 7), Music.
Tags: Album Review, Caitlin Walsh, Domino, Lower Dens, Nootropics
[MUSIC: Album Review] Father John Misty – Fear Fun
Father John Misty Fear Fun Sub Pop/Inertia **** Father John Misty is the nom de plume of J. Tillman, the former drummer for Fleet Foxes. At their best, that band are inspired interpreters of Americana, translating centuries-old folk traditions into the language of the 21st; at their worst, their tendency to overproduce strips the humanity [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2012 under Album Reviews, Brag 460 (April 30), Music.
Tags: Father John Misty, Fear Fun, Hugh Robertson, The Brag
[MUSIC: Album Review] Santigold – Master Of My Make Believe
Santigold Master Of My Make Believe Atlantic/Warner *** 1/2 It always seemed like Santi White was more a victim of her aesthetic sensibilities than the master of them. From the word go, she’s managed to fall in with every top-line producer in the various worlds her music inhabits. Sometimes it works (Diplo) and other times [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2012 under Album Reviews, Brag 460 (April 30), Music.
Tags: Jonno Siedler, Master Of My Make Believe, Santigold, The Brag
[MUSIC: Album Review] Rufus Wainwright – Out Of The Game
Rufus Wainwright Out Of The Game Atlantic UK/Universal *** 1/2 Wainwright has built a career straddling scenes, his songs being a touch too clever, archly ironic and camp for the mainstream; a touch too bouncily upbeat for an alternative scene fixated on finding the next group of guitar-flaunting ‘indie darlings’. None of which has prevented [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2012 under Album Reviews, Brag 460 (April 30), Music.
Tags: Oliver Downes, Out Of The Game, Rufus Wainwright, The Brag
[MUSIC: Album Review] The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Aufheben
The Brian Jonestown Massacre Aufheben Riot House/Inertia **** Never a group to make the same album twice, The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s 13th studio album forgoes the more abrasive, alienating elements of the previous two albums (My Bloody Underground and Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?) in favour of mellow, electronica coupled with elements which hark back to [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2012 under Album Reviews, Brag 460 (April 30), Music.
Tags: Aufheben, Micheal Hartt, The Brag, The Brian Jonestown Massacre