Album: Shrines Artist: Purity Ring Year: 2012 As a genre, experimental rock isn’t particularly descriptive. With sub-genres including everything from house music to math rock to what is essentially instrumental post rock, albums placed under the experimental heading often struggle to define themselves. Case in point is the trippy and somewhat magical-sounding album Shrines from the… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Electronic / Post-Rock
DIIV, Oshin: Album Review
Album: Oshin Artist: DIIV Year: 2012 The Brooklyn-based post rock / indie rock band, DIIV (formerly Dive) is getting a fair amount of attention for it’s debut LP, Oshin, and rightly so. Oshin is a delicate, uplifting little album, the kind of music you play on a lazy Sunday afternoon but then find yourself listening to… Continue Reading
Kids These Days: The Up and Coming Talent of Leigh Ann’s Incisions
I trekked up to Marietta last Saturday to check out a metal-core band made up of high school kids called Leigh Ann’s Incisions at a little Marietta venue called Swayze’s. Admittedly, I was out of my comfort zone in a few ways. For one, I don’t often journey out of Atlanta to hear music, not… Continue Reading
Tim Hecker, Dropped Pianos : Album Review
Album: Dropped Pianos Artist: Tim Hecker Year: 2011 When an electronic composer is bad, it is very very bad, but when it’s good, it can create something really wonderful, something that music with lyrics just can’t touch. This was my reaction to the new Tim Hecker album of sketches, aptly titled Dropped Pianos. Electronic… Continue Reading
Album Review: Balam Acab, “Wander / Wonder”
Album: Wander/Wonder Artist: Balam Acab Year: 2011 The artist known as Balam Acab takes his name from a Mayan myth about a demi-god who shot an arrow into the clouds to relieve a drought. In the version I came across, the arrow pierces the cloud and draws out a rainbow, along with the rain.… Continue Reading
Album Review: Little Dragon, “Ritual Union”
Album: Ritual Union Artist: Little Dragon Year: 2011 Little Dragon has been around for a short while, but this is first I’ve heard of them. It appears that I may have jumped on their bandwagon a bit too late. From all reports, the groups first two releases were mostly overlooked and underrated, but those… Continue Reading
Album Review: CSS, “La Liberación”
Album: La Liberación Artist: CSS Year: 2011 Cansei de Ser Sexy, better known as CSS clearly has a lot of emotion to get out. Their third album, La Liberación comes three years after the somewhat disappointing release of Donkey, an album that received mixed reviews at best and from the sound of La Liberación, CSS took the… Continue Reading
Album Review: Saxon Shore "It Doesn’t Matter"
Some people listen to music for the words. Some people listen to music for the beat. I’ve realized that I listen to music for the mood. This doesn’t mean that lyrics can’t be important, but sometimes all you want is a song that will transport you to someplace you’d rather be. In the case of… Continue Reading
Album Review: Peter and the Wolf, "Traffique’s Endless Weekend Mixtape"
Album: Traffique’s Endless Weekend Mixtape Artist: Peter and the Wolf Year Released: 2010 Remember the 1970′s? Yeah, me neither. But remember that awful time in the late 90′s when 70′s nostalgia was taking over television and music? While 70′s nostalgia was fun for a while and then horrifying after that, its was a reminder that… Continue Reading
Now Listening: Mt. Eerie, Wind's Poem
This image is completely stolen from http://www.pwelverumandsun.com/, the only apparent website for Phil Everum, the talent behind The Microphones and now Mt. Eerie. I’ve been listening to Mt. Eerie’s latest release, Wind’s Poem, for about a week now. For starters, if you own a decent pair of headphones, this is one album that sounds dramatically… Continue Reading