Pining for the fjords, or at least pining to hear a few Grandaddy-style expanses? Well then, you're in luck because here Sparklehorse linchpin Mark Linkous does the plaintive pastiche thing as well as those Modesto Big Sky cowboys (especially on 'Don't Take My Sunshine Away' and 'Shade and Honey'). Additionally, Linkous can lay a boar bristle broad stoke of mischievously adorned bliss in tune with the Flaming Lips (whose drummer, Steven Drozd plays on this full-length). Linkous has also shared a producer with the Lips'specifically David ...
Philly house music pied piper King Britt is a man of many, many projects. He worked on the score for the Miami Vice big-budget rip-off. He's got that '80s-leaning Sylk 130 collective, and a more experimental outlet with his Scuba alias. He even pulled a tribute album way out of left field (Sister Gertrude Morgan?) and his release schedule of mix compilations is always pretty crowded. Now, he's taken on another face with Nova Dream Sequence. It's an understatement to say he's got multiple ...
Despite his prolonged musical hiatus of nearly eight years, the world hasn't gotten any easier for Sean Lennon in the interim. Now having to loom under the shadow of not only moms and pops but also the uncanny resemblance to every child's hero, Harry Potter. Mr. Lennon Jr. scrapes together 10 warm musical gems that just might be the best moments in pop in 2006. Perhaps the only looming problem with Friendly Fire is its unavoidable debt to a certain Fab Four. Throw in the ...
Any band of ruffian upstarts that has the gall to brandish song titles like 'Jackie Big Tits' and 'Sofa Song' is obviously reveling in that wonderful adolescent haze so worshipped from Neanderthal days of punk rock'n'roll. But this hirsute Brighton-based quartet has plenty of meat to back up it meat-headed song titles. Having already conquered the UK top 20 with 'You Don't Love Me' (included here), The Kooks display a fresh scrubbed appeal that fulminates with ferociousness, tunefulness, and rhythmic playfulness. 'Naive' shambles over thrash funk ...
The Canadian invasion continues as Montreal-based sextet The Dears releases its third studio album, Gang of Losers. The band's sound has evolved since its previous album, 2004's acclaimed No Cities Left, a dark, dramatic masterpiece that left critics comparing lead singer Murray Lightburn to Morrissey. On Gang of Losers, The Dears replace some of those theatrics with a more uplifting tone. While fans of No Cities Left might not be crazy about the bar rock of 'Death or Life We Want You,' explosive epics like 'Fear ...
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