Aug 23, 2002 Music About a Boy (Original Soundtrack) by Badly Drawn Boy (Review) Despite being an original motion picture soundtrack, this is in no way background music.
May 26, 2002 Music Salt by John R. Williamson (Review) Expect great things from Williamson in the future, and the future is now.
Apr 21, 2002 Music When We Were Small by Rosie Thomas (Review) Thomas is the kind of performer that could sing gibberish and make it sound good.
Apr 21, 2002 Music Woven Hand by Wovenhand (Review) With the religion in, an Edwards record is the audio equivalent of reading Flannery O’Connor or William Faulkner.
Apr 14, 2002 Music Rivulets by Rivulets (Review) Like a set of old, grainy family photographs you stumble across, not so much comforting as haunting.
Mar 23, 2002 Music Oar by Skip Spence (Review) Oar is a spectacular achievement of truth and beauty, an example of raw emotion reduced to its purest form.
Mar 23, 2002 Music Hotel Lives by Simon Joyner (Review) A collection of stark, regretful vignettes of longing, loneliness, broken dreams, and haunting memories.
Mar 23, 2002 Music The Hour of Bewilderbeast by Badly Drawn Boy (Review) Badly Drawn Boy seems to look for any excuse to break the conventional song set-up.
Feb 27, 2002 Music Songs in a Northern Key by Varnaline (Review) Songs in a Northern Key shows an artist at the height of his powers.
Jan 12, 2002 Music A School of Secret Dangers by Amy Annelle (Review) An understated little gem that deserves far more notice than it’s ever likely to receive.
Aug 8, 2001 Music Ask Me Tomorrow by Mojave 3 (Review) Mojave 3 has gone for a starker acoustic sound that’s stripped down, sparse, and surprisingly more inviting.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Rehearsals for Departure by Damien Jurado (Review) Jurado’s lyrics manage to describe tales that seem epic, struggles that seem like something truly overcome.
Feb 17, 2001 Music Ghost of David by Damien Jurado (Review) The territory that Jurado explores is not for those seeking easy answers wrapped up in pop melodies.
Jan 13, 2001 Music Coming to Terms by Arco (Review) Arco’s Chris Healey has just about the softest, whispery-est voice in pop music.
Dec 23, 2000 Music From the Porch by Ticklepenny Corner (Review) After several long, hard listens, one sees how lovely this simply, unassuming album can be.
Dec 23, 2000 Music Alpha by Tri-Danielson (Review) He has taken evangelism to a peculiar but effective level that involves love and not persecution.
Dec 23, 2000 Music Sackcloth ‘N’ Ashes by 16 Horsepower (Review) A dark conviction runs through these songs, along with a tangible spirituality that makes them so intensely captivating.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Good Dog Bad Dog (The Home Recordings) by Over The Rhine (Review) The talent is pretty overwhelming throughout the record.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Moon Pix by Cat Power (Review) Cat Power used to be one of those bands that I lumped in with “all the rest of the indie crap that’s not drone.”