Opeth –“Cusp of Eternity” (Song Review)
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥For those longtime Opeth fans who view 2011′s Heritage as a misstep for its near-complete expulsion of metal from the band’s now-signature sound… well, “Cusp of Eternity” isn’t likely to hit...
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David Gray – Mutineers (ALBUM REVIEW)
♥♥♥♥♥♥On Mutineers, David Gray’s first release in four years, the problem is not that he has left the building, but rather that he is lost down a better forgotten corridor.With 2005’s Life in Slow...
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Tim Bowness – Abandoned Dancehall Dreams (ALBUM REVIEW)
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Over the course of No-Man’s six studio recordings, singer/songwriter Tim Bowness wrote some of the most poignant lyrics in the realm of modern music. With multi-instrumentalist and progressive...
View ArticleDeath From Above 1979 – The Physical World (ALBUM REVIEW)
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Ten years have passed since the Toronto bass and drums duo Death from Above 1979 released its debut LP, the high-octane You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine. For a good while, it seemed that record...
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Punch Brothers – The Phosphorescent Blues (ALBUM REVIEW)
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥In 2012, the “progressive bluegrass” quintet Punch Brothers asked the world, Who’s Feeling Young Now? And that dazzling 12-track album remains the culmination of the group’s collective goals. In...
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Brian Wilson -No Pier Pressure (ALBUM REVIEW)
♥♥♥No Pier Pressure answers a lot of questions, many if not most of which the world probably didn’t need to ask in the first place. These include: “What if Carnival Cruise Lines hired Brian Wilson as...
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The Mowglis – Kids in Love (ALBUM REVIEW)
♥♥♥If nothing else, the California rock outfit the Mowgli’s will always have “San Francisco”. That tune, a jubilant ode to “being in love with love”, is no doubt guilty of pressing all the standard pop...
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Between the Buried and Me – Coma Ecliptic (ALBUM REVIEW)
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Regardless of what one’s opinion of Between the Buried and Me’s 2012 concept LP The Parallax II: Future Sequence is, it’s hard to deny one thing: it’s certainly the band’s Most Album. Running...
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Deafheaven Sharpens Its Attack on ‘New Bermuda’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Sunbather, the 2013 album by the then Bay Area (now Los Angeles) “metalgaze” outfit Deafheaven, was, and arguably still is, dangerously close to merchandising itself into self-parody. The...
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The Avett Brothers Struggle Against Production Values on ‘True Sadness’...
♥♥♥♥♥♥There’s an ongoing debate about the state of the Avett Brothers’ music that begins with 2009′s Rick Rubin-produced I and Love and You. The Avett Brothers, a North Carolina-based group led up by...
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