ted leo and the pharmacists – hearts of oak
there’s so much to love about this album. i get that ted leo isn’t for everyone. he has a definite thing that’s just his. and you like it or you […]
there’s so much to love about this album. i get that ted leo isn’t for everyone. he has a definite thing that’s just his. and you like it or you […]
it’s not quite as homogenous, or like, as other australian music of the era. it has characteristics of harder rock that had largely fallen out of favour for local bands […]
oh let me be myself of any album, in hindsight, this one represents the raging independence i now live out. this is interesting for a number of reasons, not least […]
there’s more than gravity pushing on me i have fonder memories of this than it turns out were actually buried in the music. lou barlow never really needed a vocoder […]
accentuate the sound this happens to be some of the more pure music made by jsbx – by which i mean there was minimal sampling and editing, and a lot […]
another kind of cheating here. there are three songs. it was yet another in the selection of cast-offs from three d radio. it’s not bad; but it is a sort […]
i have been in the dark since i got home from work. first with curtains closed to reflect the still-hot ambient temperature and direct sun. then, as the sun dropped […]
he asked me how i’d been, i lied and then said that i’d been fine in words that trailed off, that’s as far as we got i know, i should […]
here’s another glimpse into my middle-aged future, perhaps. adult contemporary. i’ve said that about a few bands so far, mostly those associated with wilco. i’ve also strayed near pinetop seven […]
i remember the first i heard a built to spill song was the same time i saw one – pavement were guest programming on rage during their australian tour of […]
here we have another spunk records sampler. this one definitely helped me make some links between music i hadn’t previously given a chance, or known about. it timed well in […]
acknowledging last night’s incapacity to articulate my feelings about boss hog, i return thus. there’s a genuine dirtiness to this music. on its own, removed from the context of its […]
maybe this is too closely related to last night’s effort. it’s jon spencer and his wife, cristina martinez. the band started a bit before blues explosion, though this second release […]
it was a golden era. there were intersections with jon spencer; there was a parallel into more of that country-inflected music that i would accept liking about year after this […]
the combination of kim salmon and stellar aesthetic (literally, the cover art is made of constellations) made this a must-have. and it’s totally worth it. this isn’t meaningful music in […]
forgetfulness? in all honesty, there can be no other explanation for why i have both the cd and vinyl media for this single release off the letting go. it is […]
i find myself less able to say much about modern music. i enjoy it. is that enough to say? cut copy are an australian band that i heard of a […]
this was a bonus disc with last night’s entry, lost blues and other songs. it is as it says; soundtrack music to a film of the bracketed name, released two […]