Echo And The Bunnymen Flowers Spin Art/Cooking Vinyl By: Eric Greenwood Flowers is the third respectable installment in the resurrected Echo And The Bunnymen"s second act. The band ended the 1980"s with a whimper, having besmirched its reputation somewhat with a lackluster self-titled album in 1987. A decade later the three original Bunnymen picked up […]

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Gosford Park Directed By Robert Altman Usa By: Eric Greenwood Robert Altman goes period piece in his latest offering, Gosford Park- a comedic murder/mystery set in the 1930"s and featuring some of England"s A-list actors (Kristin Scott Thomas, Emily Watson, Helen Mirren). The last decade was shaky at best for Altman, who churned out some […]

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Brazen And Kevlar Split Double 3-inch Mcd Snuff By: Eric Greenwood Beautiful packaging goes a long way these days. How can you sift through piles of anonymous CD"s without discerning the good artwork from the bad? Appeal to the eye and then to the ears. This split EP certainly appeals to the eye. It"s a […]

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Pete Yorn Music For The Morning After Columbia By: Eric Greenwood Pete Yorn sports more raw talent than he does instinct, as he mines the history of rock and roll on this equally annoying and impressive (and overproduced) debut album. Yorn has a solid and versatile baritone. He can whine and moan effectively through mimicked […]

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Spiritualized Let It Come Down Arista By: Eric Greenwood What do you do after you release your most critically acclaimed/commercially successful album to date? Well, if you"re Jason Pierce, you fire everyone in your band and start over. 1997"s Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space was a monumental album for Pierce"s Spiritualized. It […]

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Unwound New Plastic Ideas Kill Rock Stars By: Eric Greenwood For its third actual album (second for Kill Rock Stars) Unwound turns its artful punk into a swelling mass of melody and rhythmic propulsion. Justin Trosper’s vocals reach new levels of versatility as well, rising above the hoarse yell he had so successfully employed on […]

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Kill Me Tomorrow S/t Ep Silver Girl By: Eric Greenwood San Diego"s Kill Me Tomorrow borrows heavily from the post-punk minimalism of The Fall and injects its own collage of noise and obscure melodies to spruce it up for modern consumption. Influences range from 1960"s garage ("Lawn") to dark, experimental-electronic fusion ("Travelling Salesman Dilemma"). It […]

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