Aug 27, 2001 Music Wind Chains by Molly Zenobia (Review) If gothic music lived up to it’s name this is what it would sound like.
Aug 18, 2001 Music Love Ambition Demo by Matt Easton (Review) Easton isn’t doing anything mind-blowing here. He’s just very adept at penning good songs, musically and lyrically.
Jul 22, 2001 Music Put Us in Tune by Thou (Review) Not a masterpiece, but it shows a band that could be worth keeping an ear on in this decade.
Jul 22, 2001 Music A Bullfighter’s Guide to Space and Love by Havalina (Review) The most straightforward Havalina release to date, if you can use “straightforward” to describe a Havalina release.
Jun 30, 2001 Music Sleeps with the Fishes by Pieter Nooten, Michael Brook (Review) Sleeps with the Fishes is adept at taking what should be morose music and converts it into something resplendent.
Jun 22, 2001 Music David Donson by Summum Bonum (Review) Set yourself the easier task of locating the only good British weirdo album of the “grunge” era.
Jun 2, 2001 Music 100 Broken Windows by Idlewild (Review) An abrasive, tuneful pop-punk-rock collision that works because of the band’s talent and ability.
Jun 1, 2001 Best of Opus Music The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads by Lift To Experience (Review) It’s this dichotomy between the worldliness and the spirituality in their songs that makes Lift To Experience’s music so interesting to me.
Apr 14, 2001 Music The Ghost Sonata by Tuxedomoon (Review) At times, the album is a beautiful, eerie lullaby only to dissolve into sounds of gloom and despair.
Apr 7, 2001 Music The Beta Band by The Beta Band (Review) This would be pretty unlistenable stuff except for the infectious beats and bass that keep your head nodding and your eyes glazed the whole time.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Many Worlds Are Born Tonight by Happy Rhodes (Review) This record is one of the greatest jewels of emotion and creativity to emerge from 1998.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Hello Columbus by David E. Williams (Review) Call it brilliant, call it wrong, but it will certainly cause listeners with a more delicate palate some pause.
Apr 7, 2001 Music A House for the Dead and a Porch for the Dying by David E. Williams (Review) If you’re of a sensitive disposition, you won’t like this album. Trust me.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Curtains by Tindersticks (Review) Tindersticks consolidate upon the wry intimacy and skewed pop sensibilities that has seen them regularly top critics’ polls.
Apr 7, 2001 Music The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips (Review) You can create beautiful songs that tread on the edge of human perception, but still inject warmth and emotion into them.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Dead Bees on a Cake by David Sylvian (Review) I’ll take Sylvian’s excesses any day over, because I know there’s a sensitive mind at work here.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Wake Up! by The Boo Radleys (Review) From start to finish, the Boo Radleys explore the whole of pop, ranging from short, punchy numbers full of hooks to long ballads.
Mar 6, 2001 Music Deep by Peter Murphy (Review) Deep’s music was more accessible than that of any Bauhaus records, but it keeps the same quality that characterizes them.
Feb 17, 2001 Music Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea by PJ Harvey (Review) This is a work of art of an artist whose creative spark doesn’t seem to sell out regardless of the circumstances.
Feb 17, 2001 Music Introducing the Denver Gentlemen by The Denver Gentlemen (Review) It’s not a dull listen, because one never knows just how a song is going to end up.