Archive | Album Reviews
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Album Review: Sleigh Bells “Treats”
Rising from beneath the ever-saturated waters of today’s indie-band blogosphere is no easy task. Whether due to the sheer volume of music being written or the Internet’s murky conglomeration of media outlets, it seems that most bands are destined for the shadows before ever making that first MySp...
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Album Review: The Dead Weather “Sea Of Cowards”
What a difference ten months can make. Less than a year ago, The Dead Weather released their first album, “Horehound.” Jack White’s newest super group found White at the drums, leaving lead guitar and vocal duties to Dean Fertita and The Kills’ Alison Mosshart, respectively.
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Album Review: LCD Soundsystem “This Is Happening”
LCD Soundsystem’s 2007 classic “Sound of Silver” featured a one-two punch for the ages in the tracks “Someone Great” and “All My Friends.
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Album Review: The National “High Violet”
Steeped in the darkest, deepest registers of the electric guitar and baritone vocals, the National cuts to nostalgia's bone with dazzling precision in their latest album High Violet.
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Album Review: The National “High Violet”
What makes a “grower” nowadays? You know — that album that didn’t really hit you at first but somehow, beyond your control, crept its way through your speakers more and more often?
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Album Review: Dada Trash Collage “Neighbors”
Despite praise for his Adderall enhanced stocking ability, Dada Trash Collage’s Billy Freed has just turned in his two-weeks notice at Menards. Releasing his hotly anticipated third LP and getting married in the next month, the future holds many changes for Freed.
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Album Review: Sing It Loud “Everything Collide”
The era of Blink-182 is over. Pop punk is dead. In its place have emerged countless bands emulating the predictable, radio-friendly sounds of so many other teenybopper rock bands. A-D-G, A-D-G, are there any other chord arrangements out there?
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Album Review: Hold Steady “Heaven Is Whenever”
When The Hold Steady keyboardist Franz Nicolay announced last fall that he would be leaving the band after five years and three impeccable studio albums, longtime fans couldn’t help but be apprehensive about how the next record would turn out.
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Album Review: New Pornographers “Together”
The New Pornographers have built a reputation as some of the most ingenious creators of sparkling and supremely catchy indie pop of the last 10 years.