The Unicorns Who Will Cut Your Hair When We're Gone? Alien8 By: Eric Greenwood My hatred of the Flaming Lips borders on the psychotic, so I am admittedly inherently biased against anything resembling free willy hippie jam pop garbage, which, sadly, is exactly what The Unicorns offer on this overly-hyped mess of a debut. Not […]

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Damon Albarn Democrazy Honest Jon's By: Eric Greenwood Fucking lead singers always have their heads up their asses. It's pretty much universally agreed that Damon Albarn is a twat. And a spoiled one at that. Always has been; always will be. Born of intellectual hippies, Albarn cheekily co-opted the Mod movement with Blur's second album, […]

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The Stills Logic Will Break Your Heart Vice/Atlantic By: Eric Greenwood The Stills may share the same predictable, post-punk influences as every card-carrying band of hipsters emanating from New York City these days, but they've altered the bedraggled formula somewhat. In the grand scheme of things, catchy maudlin pop has been done countless times over, […]

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!!! Me And Giuliani Down By The School Yard (A True Story) Ep Touch And Go By: Eric Greenwood I'd never had much respect for Manchester's Happy Mondays until I saw 24-hour Party People, the film chronicling the rise and fall (and rise?) of legendary Factory Records' owner and creator, Anthony Wilson. The amount of […]

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Enon Hocus-Pocus Touch And Go By: Eric Greenwood For a band that has built its reputation on charging in unpredictable directions, Enon's third album feels strangely ho-hum and disappointingly underdeveloped. Last year's acclaimed High Society set the bar fairly high for Enon's spastic, schizophrenic pop confections, but Hocus-Pocus never makes good on the promise that […]

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Murder By Death Who Will Survive And What Will Be Left Of Them? Eyeball By: Eric Greenwood Not only has the name changed, but the music has, too, for this Bloomington, Indiana quintet. The former Little Joe Gould sounds like a new band on its darkly thematic and stunning sophomore album. Where introspection, elegiac melodies, […]

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The Rapture Echoes Strummer/Universal By: Eric Greenwood Despite what you'll invariably read elsewhere, The Rapture's sloppy, clanging post-punk rage is completely hit or miss, and this long-awaited full-length is the definition of anti-climactic. For every badass mind-fuck like "Out Of The Races And Onto The Tracks", there are twice as many unlistenable duds in the […]

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