Aug 18, 2001 Music No Sleep More Fun by Theselah (Review) It’s lounge music for the common kid. It’s a jazzy emo-pop.
Jul 22, 2001 Music The Faithful Anchor by Unwed Sailor (Review) It’s uncanny how Unwed Sailor is able to convey emotion through a simple melody, a brush of a cymbal, a rolling bassline.
Jun 23, 2001 Music Le Carillon by The Autumns (Review) These songs are pure filigree, the musical equivalent of rococo art, completely concerned with ornamentation and flourish.
Jun 22, 2001 Music Forbidden Love EP by Death Cab For Cutie (Review) Forbidden Love is a hopeful sign that the band’s new album this fall will be just as resonant.
Jun 2, 2001 Music Imaginary Cars by LN (Review) LN’s latest contains the patented VBM brand of breathy, melancholy love songs.
Apr 14, 2001 Music Serene by Serene (Review) These guys are obviously talented, too talented to be writing music that is too often bland and un-involving.
Apr 14, 2001 Music Covers EP by The Autumns (Review) The fact that I received this CD in the mail half an hour ago and I’m already gushing over it should say something for its quality.
Apr 7, 2001 Music California by The Lassie Foundation (Review) Simply put, this album reaffirms all that’s good and golden with pop music.
Mar 24, 2001 Music Goldenwest by Ester Drang (Review) There are those times when, within the first 30 seconds of listening to a new CD, you know you’re listening to something truly special.
Mar 10, 2001 Music That Is When He Turns Us Golden by Ester Drang (Review) A noisy space album filled with feedback, experimental reverb, eerie electronics, and soft vocals that should please any My Bloody Valentine fan.
Mar 6, 2001 Music Burnside Project by Burnside Project (Review) A different kind of fourth dimensional indie rockiness.
Mar 6, 2001 Music Quiet as It’s Kept by The Billions (Review) The Billions can write indie-pop odes to unrequited love that know all of the right ways to tug at the heartstrings.
Jan 12, 2001 Music Dinosaur Act by Low (Review) The result is something pure and natural, as wholesome as can be, but also full of tension and anxiety.
Dec 23, 2000 Music Owl Remix Low by Various Artists (Review) The best way to enjoy this disk is not really so much as a Low record, but as a relatively well-done compilation of electronic and ambient music.
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 Artcore, Volume 2 by Various Artists (Review) Buy this album, if only to see what’s currently happening in cutting-edge Christian music.
Dec 23, 2000 Music Scientific by Scientific (Review) Scientific’s self-titled debut possesses a sense of nostalgic fun that sounds retro without being kitschy.
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 22, 2000 Music The Eastwood Dive by Pony Express (Review) My advice: don’t run away from this album, but listen to it before you buy it.