I Love You But I Have Chosen Darkness According To Plan 12 Inch Artikal By: Michael Jones Austin, Texas’ I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness follow up their highly acclaimed 2003 EP with a two-song single on soon-to-be It label Artikal, and quickly live up to the promise of their brooding and marquee-busting name. […]

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New Order Waiting For The Sirens' Call Warner Bros. By: Eric Greenwood The musical ingredients are practically identical to any great New Order album, but Waiting for the Siren's Call is as tepid as tap water. New Order's hybrid of overtly danceable electronics overlayed by organic instrumentation has been its call to arms since it […]

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Beck Guero Interscope By: Eric Greenwood After a decade of wringing his junk culture-soaked sponge on the masses by way of the hipster elite, Beck has decided to step back and make sure that we understand what he's been about all along. Guero follows Beck's achingly beautiful break-up record, 2002's Sea Change, with a return […]

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Mobius Band City Vs Country EP Ghostly International By: Eric Greenwood Glitchy electro pop is a dime a dozen in these post-Postal Service days, but Massachusettss trio, Mobius Band, throws a curveball into the mix by turning up the guitars just enough to call it electro-rock. Tricky, huh? “Starts Off with a Bang”, well, doesn't […]

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Low The Great Destroyer Sub Pop By: Eric Greenwood Low reacts to a three-year silence with its noisiest record to date. Jumping from Kranky to Sub Pop and recruiting Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann, Low definitely shakes things up enough to spark some new interest and, at the very least, a re-evaluation from long-time fans. […]

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Bolt Movement And Detail Self-Released By: Eric Greenwood Despite having a diverse musical pedigree, Columbia, South Carolina has never been known for its instrumental post-rock, but Bolt is here to change that. With its newly released sophomore album, Movement and Detail, the trio sheds some of the metal histrionics that peppered its debut in favor […]

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The Mars Volta Frances The Mute Strummer/Universal By: Eric Greenwood The Mars Volta's pretentiousness is so all consuming one can't help but laugh. The artwork for both its albums has been absurdly tacky, ghastly even. The song titles are equally absurd, mining the dregs of some deviant imaginary sci-fi prog-rock opera that should never be […]

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