Authors: Stephan Wyatt
Local Review: Officer Jenny – ~*queen of cups*~
Officer Jenny = The Antlers + Sufjan Stevens + Craig Wedren … read more
Local Review: Passive Tourist – Inadequacy
Passive Tourist = Animal Collective + Dirty Projectors + Billy Higgins
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Local Review: Just a Clone – Self-Titled
Ogden’s Just a Clone just exited a time machine where they visited indie rock’s underwhelming beginnings. They took detailed notes, observed the greasy-haired, flannel-clad boys, listened intently to its slacker-like deliveries and paid attention to the era’s disdain for being liked by an adoring public. … read more
Local Review: Foster Body – Moving Display
Foster Body = Gang of Four + Jad Fair + Erase Errata … read more
Local Review: Fasba Fpel – Book LXVII—Mobile Home Manor
Fasba Fpel = Red Krayola + Jazz Fusion + June of 44 + early Pink Floyd … read more
Review: Cold Sweats – Social Coma
Cold Sweats = Quicksand + Brutal Juice + Scratch Acid … read more
Review: Beliefs – Leaper
Beliefs = My Bloody Valentine + Slowdive + Sonic Youth … read more
Review: Animal Collective – Painting With
Bearing the face of Marcel Duchamp’s readymade L.H.O.O.Q., initial wonderment of Animal Collective’s newest offering Painting With maybe met with the band drawing a moustache over its own music.
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Timmy’s Organism Revives Detroit Rock City
The history of rock n’ roll has been subverted by the explosion of technology’s gear gadgetry. A line of demarcation needs to be drawn to show the shift from the large recording studio, enveloped by colossal boards and reel-to-reel recorders, to today’s proficient and IKEA-quaint studios with point-and-click DAWs and computer monitors. … read more
Review: Chris Knox / Tall Dwarfs – Seizure / Weeville...
For every introverted soul who feared the sunlight, people and being seen or addressed in public, Chris Knox wrote songs for them. The famous godfather of New Zealand punk and lo-fi influenced all things that ultimately became the lame, overgeneralized indie label. … read more
Officer Jenny: Offering a Voice to the Voiceless
Stephen Cope’s Officer Jenny project sheds light into the darkest corners, zooming in on the most repulsive details in one of 2015’s best records, ~*queen of cups*~. The album’s opening track, “Father Doted Over Me,” pulls no punches and aims straight at the heart of the matter, and the matter of the heart is broken, shattered. … read more
Death Magic: HEALTH Finds The Perfect Prescription
Taking a page from some of music’s most self-effacing artists, such as Kevin Shields and Trent Reznor, HEALTH possess numberless albums that were scrapped due to their creative perfection complex. The Los Angeles noise-rock act HEALTH stood on the edge of oblivion and took six years to architect a near-perfect follow-up to 2009’s Get Color, Death Magic.
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