Vanilla Sky Directed By Cameron Crowe Paramount By: Eric Greenwood With Vanilla Sky Cameron Crowe starts to take himself a little too seriously. In all fairness, Vanilla Sky is an unbelievably entertaining film to watch until its absurd ending. Crowe takes drastic measures to throw as much eye candy on the screen as possible. For […]

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The Dismemberment Plan Change Desoto By: Eric Greenwood The Dismemberment Plan could not have produced a better follow up to Emergency & I than Change, its fourth full-length. Emergency & I was an anomaly for several reasons- it’s critical success notwithstanding. First, it was the synthesis of everything that is great about The Dismemberment Plan. […]

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David Byrne Look Into The Eyeball Virgin/Luaka Bop By: Eric Greenwood Following the demise of the Talking Heads, David Byrne flew under the radar for a few albums, suffering from the same disease that has plagued so many lead singers of legendary bands. This disease often forces former lead singers to join forces with The […]

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The Cure Greatest Hits Elektra/Fiction By: Eric Greenwood Arbitrary and somewhat unrepresentative, the new Greatest Hits package by The Cure is inessential for fans new or old, even if you buy the limited edition double disc that includes acoustic versions of all the songs. With two retrospective collections already on the shelves (Standing On A […]

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Serotonin Universal Time Constant Bifocal Media By: Eric Greenwood Serotonin"s aggressive emo suffers from an overly complex musical base and a rushed sense of melody, among other things. The guitars surge, but they were recorded so poorly that the effect is limp. In terms of dynamics, the band whips through its changes flawlessly- it"s just […]

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M. Ward End Of Amnesia Future Farmer By: Eric Greenwood Being compared to an anomaly like Tom Waits is more of a curse than a blessing. Simply put- there"s only one Tom Waits, and anything resembling him will invariably be viewed as a sad rip-off. So when I read that M. Ward sounded like a […]

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Isobella A 24 Syllable Haiku Claire By: Eric Greenwood With an impressive wall of guitars guiding its slow and shimmering songs, Isobella returns on its second album with another collection of dreamy albeit derivative pop. Let"s get the obligatory references out of the way. Yes, Isobella owns a copy of My Bloody Valentine"s Loveless and […]

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