Tag: Album
[ALBUM: Review] Gossip – A Joyful Noise
Ditto declares on droning opener ‘Melody Emergency’, “So you’re not a rock and roller and there’s nothing wrong with that”. Only time will tell if her fans feel the same.
Posted: June 3rd, 2012 under Album Reviews, Brag 464 (May 28), Music.
Tags: A Joyful Noise, Album, Album Review, Brag, Gossip, Lee Hutchison, Music
[MUSIC: Interview] Sui Zhen
Becky Freeman is one busy bee. The lady who calls herself Sui Zhen for the purposes of folksy solo-songwriting released her charming debut Two Seas this month, and she’s hard at work in Melbourne when I call her, getting ready to launch a new website dedicated to documentary-style video.
Posted: June 1st, 2012 under Brag 464 (May 28), Music, Music - Interview, New.
Tags: Album, FBi Social, interview, Jenny Noyes, Kings Cross, Music, Sui Zhen, Two Seas
[ALBUM: Review] The Temper Trap – The Temper Trap
This is a competent record – but for anyone who relished the more eclectic dynamics and promise of Conditions, it’s a far from uplifting experience
Posted: May 29th, 2012 under Album Reviews, Brag 464 (May 28), Music.
Tags: Album, Album Review, Caitlin Walsh, The Temper Trap
[ALBUM: Review] Ty Segall & White Fence – Hair
Lo-fi king Ty Segall and one-man bedroom band White Fence (aka Tim Presley), two of
the poster boys of industrious music-making, have joined forces to produce Hair: an album that’s typical of the great bunch of psych-garage bands coming out of San Francisco right now.
Posted: May 29th, 2012 under Album Reviews, Brag 464 (May 28), Music.
Tags: Album, Album Review, Anna Kennedy, Hair, Ty Segall, White Fence
[MUSIC: Album Review] Silversun Pickups – Neck Of The Woods
In 2006, Los Angeles four-piece Silversun Pickups became a youth radio staple with their debut single ‘Lazy Eye’ – and it’s easy to see why. With its perfect combination of pressure-cooker vocal punch and a ridiculously simple and infectious guitar line, it makes you want to dance around your bedroom alone while your cat observes in disdain. But despite selling a bunch of records on the back of that one song, the band seems to have fallen into semi-obscurity. Their sophomore album Swoon in 2009 (which actually had a few great songs) is now sales-bin fodder, and they are yet to recapture the genius that was that breakthrough track. With Neck Of The Woods, the band ventures towards new-romantic synth pop to counter-balance the stadium rock riffage.
Posted: May 23rd, 2012 under Album Reviews, Brag 463 (May 21), Music, Uncategorized.
Tags: Album, Album Reviews, Neck of the Woods, Rich Warner, Silversun Pickups