Final Fantasy
He Poos Clouds
Label: Tomlab
Release Date: 06/13/06
There are two things on my mind tonight. First, where is my nasonex nasal spray? Second, why in tarnation was Dungeons and Dragons the basis of Final Fantasy’s He Poos Clouds?
Owen Pallett, the mastermind behind Final Fantasy, tickled my soft pallet last year with his debut release entitled Has […]
Jel
Soft Money
Label: Anticon
Release Date: 02/28/06
The work of the Anticon collective, as well as related projects on sympathetic labels such as Mush, Lex, and Rhymesayers is interesting. Anticon is cherished by many for offering a unique, creative alternative to all that is […]
Regina Spektor
Begin to Hope
Label: Sire
Release Date: 06/13/06
It starts out like a sunny morning drive home in sunglasses with a smirk on your mug after a fiery reunion with your first love. Or at least that’s what “Begin to Hope” gets me longing […]
Astronautalis
The Mighty Ocean and Nine Dark Theaters
Label: Fighting RecordsRelease Date: 05/23/06
I’ve been waiting for this album ever since I first saw Astronautalis last August. It’s been promised, un-promised, re-promised, unfulfilled and now, finally, here it rests in my hands. And […]
Roc C
All Questions Answered
Label: Stones Throw
Release Date: 06/27/06
Remember in the mid-90s when it seemed like West Coast Underground was going to take over the world? Before the Alkaholiks were the ‘Liks, when Xzibit rapped about sell-outs rather than being one, Madlib […]
DJ Ese
Side Two
Label: EmbeddedRelease Date: 05/30/06
DJ Ese has worked for Definitive Jux ever since El-P started it and is currently General Manager of that label. Unsurprisingly, his “Side:Two” production showcase on his own Embedded Music label sounds a great deal like […]
Rahim
Ideal Lives
Label: French KissRelease Date: 04/04/06
You know how a lot of times you can tell where a band is from just by listening to a couple songs? It’s a weird phenomenon to me. I mean, how does it happen? […]
Tilly and the Wall
Bottom of Barrels
Label: Team Love
Release Date: 05/23/06
Picture this, beautiful girls, public school teachers, talented guys and a tapdancer that have alot to say about the world. They sound like a?60s pop, boy/girl harmonies group which celebrates the feisty nature […]
Shearwater
Palo Santo
Label: Misra
Release Date: 05/09/06
Will Sheff and Meiburg began their collaboration as members of the critically lauded band Okkervil River, started Shearwater in 2001 as an outlet for softer songs on which the two were working on. Shearwater was suppose to be […]
Here are a couple of metal / hardcore / punk reviews I have been sitting on. Know all that’s heavy after the jump.
The Abominable Iron Sloth - s/t (Goodfellow) 04.25.06
From the ashes of Will Haven emerges The Abominable Iron
Sloth, playing dirgy metal of the “stoner” persuasion… and
surprisingly well too. From the label that gave […]
