RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE – July 2007 Bitter Bitter Weeks, Peace is Burning Like a River (High Two Records)In his third full-length LP, Philadelphia’s Brian McTear condenses his keep-it-simple
RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE – June 2007 Art Brut, It’s a Bit Complicated (Downtown Records)Picking up where they left off in Bang Bang Rock & Roll, the weird little
RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE – May 2007 I’m From Barcelona, Let Me Introduce My Friends (Mute Records) Raffi for crook-leg dancers, requiring 29 band members to get its point
RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE – April, 2007 Combichrist, What the F—k Is Wrong With You People (Metropolis Records) More like What the F—k is Wrong With Combichrist, which we’ll
Kristoffer Ragnstam, “Sweet Bills” (Bluhammock Records)Admirers of Spoon and Sufjan alike may find common ground in this collection of alt-rock-ified sketches of violent genre collisions tabled by an artist with
RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE Torpedo Boyz, “Headache Music" (Sounds From the Roof Records) Funky, kinda crunky Europeans with refreshingly major attitudes (all the funnier given their Ahnold accents), Torpedo
RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE Black Elk, Black Elk (Crucial Blast Records)A band that can’t decide whether to be Red Scare calc, Melvins fuzz-froth or Lake of Dracula no-wave, and
July 2006 edition
A look at some of the newest in underground releases.
In this mystery meat pot-roast of goth-industrial-futurepop sub-Bjorkings, Ex-Swan Jarboe presents the most hiply presentable slices of her life over the past six years
