Album Reviews

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones: The Hidden Land

Chad Berndtson April 3, 2006 No Comments

The Hidden Land drops in advance of a major year of touring for our beloved Flecktones, who didn’t perform together in 2005 but certainly found ways to occupy themselves, with all four members mounting successful side project jaunts. Hidden isn’t so much a comeback, as some observers have oddly termed it, but rather just picking up where they left off, possibly with a renewed sense of purpose and a sensibility that seems a bit more earthbound.

Rocky Votolato: Makers

Garin Pirnia April 3, 2006 No Comments

Rocky Votolato shouldn’t be written off when if comes to earnest
folk music, but most of the album is banal with not enough distinction
between the songs. He is a fine songwriter and musician, but his music
doesn’t burst to life like some of his more refined predecessors.

Loose Fur: Born Again In The USA

Shane Handler April 3, 2006 No Comments

Side projects have become a hit or miss avenue. For every novel Postal Service, there is an over-hyped Velvet Revolver with the whole

Magnet: Tourniquet

Lauree Guyer March 31, 2006 No Comments

Compared to tracks like “The Day We Left Town,” from his first album, Johansen is capable of much more dark drama than is present on Tourniquet. The dreamlike quality here conjures up nothing more foreboding than visions of scarves billowing in slow motion.

Imogen Heap: Speak For Yourself

Shawn Donohue March 31, 2006 No Comments

With “Goodnight and Go,” you get a bubblegum teen romp with silly lyrics and a chorus that sounds so immature, it might make Britney puke when she hears it.

Devics: Push the Heart

Jason Keil March 29, 2006 No Comments

This will be the album that will have longtime fans of the Devics bragging to newcomers that they liked them before they got popular, and have the Johnny-come-latelys scrambling to find their entire back catalog.

Jarboe: The Men Album

Eric Saeger March 28, 2006 No Comments

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

Lisa Jackson & girl friday: Self-titled

Brie Austin March 27, 2006 No Comments

The newest six-song, self-titled EP from Lisa Jackson & Girl Friday is stark, powerful and provocative. It lacks studio glitz and a perfect vocal performance, yet that may just be what gives it such personality and edge.

Girls In Hawaii: From Here To There

Catherine L. Tully March 24, 2006 No Comments

Ask yourself–do you like Belgian indie-pop? Not a question most people can readily answer off the top of their head, but that is Girls In Hawaii–who are actually guys. Confused yet?

Nine Black Alps: Everything Is

Brian Gearing March 22, 2006 No Comments

Dates and times may be arbitrary human attempts to impose order amid the chaos, but the precision with which musical fads shift every time the ball drops can

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