Silkworm Blueblood Touch And Go By: Eric G. Blueblood is the sixth LP for Silkworm on almost as many labels. This one keeps the self-effacing lyrics and vocals that teeter on the brink of collapse, but tones down some of the abrasion of past releases. You can still tell that they use huge amps by […]

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Trans Am Future World Thrill Jockey By: Eric Greenwood Trans Am’s fourth album delves even further into the world of Numan-esque keyboards and Kraftwerkian vocoders to create the ultimate amalgam of Atari meets cold new wave steel. The rhythm section drives the record for the first half with abrupt staccato beats and robotic riffs. The […]

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Science Park Futurama Obscure-disk By: Kerry Mitchell Futurama, Science Park’s second album mixes Barlow vocals with Merritt-esque rhythms and New Order hooks and melodies. The band is made up of one Mr. Myke Weiskopf, a talented singer/songwriter with great pop sensibilities and an equally impressive ear for composition. Songs such as “Lay You Out in […]

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Various Artists Everything Is Nice: The Matador Records 10th Anniversary Anthology Matador By: Eric G. It’s hard to beat Matador Records for consistency over the past ten years. The label has been home to such a strangely diverse collection of bands, artists, and freaks that it has become sort of an evil twin of the […]

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Gardener New Dawning Time Sub Pop By: Eric G. I just saw what might have been Seaweed’s last show ever at Merge Record’s 10th anniversary bash, but at the very worst I can get a fix of Aaron Stauffer’s emotionally melodic vocals on his new band Gardener’s debut, New Dawning Time. The music is the […]

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Cinnamon The Many Moods Of… March By: Eric G. Cinnamon is a bittersweet mix of retro-pop arrangements, spacey-keyboards, sulky vocals and jangly guitars. The band has a scattered discography consisting of several Japanese-only EP’s, that were compiled along with one new song for the domestic full length, The Courier, in 1997. The Many Moods Of […]

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Arling All-in Emperor Norton By: Kerry Lately it seems like everyone wants to cover more ground than the next guy, always using the most bizarre samples and sounds, referencing the most underated musicians and creating the most eclectic sound possible. I suppose we could call it the “Beck” effect, but he just brought genre hopping […]

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