Album Reviews

Essex Green: Cannibal Sea

Sounds a bit like The New Pornographers, still packing punch, but not as much as Neko Case and company would probably be agreeable with.

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The Raconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers

Though clocking in at a little over a half hour along ten songs, you just expect more from a Jack White band. Broken Boy Soldiers fails to deliver any type of kick-start to the ears, or heart for that matter.

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Grand National: Kicking The National Habit

The album simultaneously calls forth memories of Sting, modern indie rock, and downbeat Euro-electro, taking the listener on an alternating journey through comforting, yet simultaneously discomfiting territory.

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The Flaming Lips: At War With The Mystics

Following the opus that was The Soft Bulletin, and the charismatic light of Yoshime is no small task, but At War With The Mystics is another explosive studio effort that comes in a close third.

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Green Light: Patient Like the Moon

The instrumental collection breaks down boundaries with each beat, turning familiar grooves into pulpits for fine-tuned, prodigious forays into music’s outer-limits.

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Mudhoney: Under A Billion Suns

The original oddballs of Sub-Pop return with Under A Billion Suns, a clanging mix of guitar noise, 50’s pop, and paranoid dirty vocals with the occasional trombone backing.

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