No, no and once again, no. I was ruined for this album long before I ever heard it, my dear readers. The reason? Well I saw them live, an experience which blows this record clean out of the water.
Live, the monotonous guitars are a glorious wall of noise which provide a perfect [...]
I was writing about bands selling out a couple of days ago and the phrase ‘the anti-popular reflex’ cropped up. Now, there are plenty of instances of bands genuinely selling out that we covered in that post and the subsequent comments, but I thought this particular phenomenon needed a little more idle chatter devoted [...]
More Montrealers make their way into the music scene, and they fit very much into the general Canadian dramatic-indie-with-instruments landscape quite neatly.
Given they’re from Montreal I feel I would be neglecting my duty by not mentioning The Arcade Fire, but I can’t really think of much of a comparison, so maybe not. Who they do [...]
I can see the indie-police descending on me for this one, but here goes anyway: in all honesty, as much as I loved Good News for People Who Love Bad News, I don’t think I really like Modest Mouse very much. After Good News I went and tried to explore their back catalogue a [...]
I don’t know if there is another group of more low-life lizards on the face of the planet than gaybashers, particularly those who make a song and dance about gay marriage being some sort of issue.
There are more evil and more psychopathic people, for sure, and more cynical and dishonest. Even the Iraq [...]
Three quick capsule reviews of albums that I no more than kind of like. They’re all decent, but not stunning and I can’t be arsed writing proper reviews for them given they aren’t famous enough for anyone to be interested unless they happened to be great. Which they aren’t. Some decent songs though…
Stone Jack [...]
