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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Prince The Rainbow Children Npg Records/redline Entertainment By: Eric Greenwood And you thought Graffiti Bridge was bad. You’ll be begging for “Thieves In The Temple” after you get a load of this. Bitter and disappointed by the lack of hits off his blatant stab at a comeback, 1999’s Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, Prince cashes […]

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Vitesse What Can Not Be, But Is… Acuarela By: Eric Greenwood This New York city duo takes a magnifying glass to those bleak melodic bits in songs by bands like New Order and The Magnetic Fields – you know the ones that make you press repeat over and over again " well, Vitesse makes entire […]

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…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Relative Ways/Homage Ep Interscope By: Eric Greenwood If this EP is any indication, the major label debut full-length from this Austin quartet will be its most stunning yet. The mark of adolescent influences is much more distant this time, so the Sonic Youth references will […]

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