Dec 23, 2000 Music In the Fishtank 5 by Tortoise, The Ex (Review) Sounds like a Fugazi clone with a horn player and a strange sort of intensity that got lost in the translation.
Dec 23, 2000 Music Per Aspera Ad Astra by Stars Of The Lid, Jon Mccafferty (Review) Pure contemplative magic.
Dec 23, 2000 Music Dual by Supercollider (Review) Compared to other post-rock artists, there’s something surprisingly raw and brutal about Supercollider’s music.
Dec 23, 2000 Music Quique by Seefeel (Review) It’s probably accurate to say that this album best bridged the gap between dreampop, techno, ambient, and jungle.
Dec 23, 2000 Music The Limits of Painting and Poetry by The Pilot Ships (Review) These songs will wrap themselves around you, like half-remembered pictures, sounds, and smells.
Dec 22, 2000 Music Shapes by Polvo (Review) They do such traditionally no-smiles allowed, experimental things, but with a real sense of humor.
Dec 22, 2000 Music Life in a Bubble Can Be Beautiful by Red Stars Theory (Review) If I look at the album’s high points, I could listen to a double album of that stuff.
Dec 21, 2000 Music The Unstable Molecule by Isotope 217 (Review) I could take 84 minutes of this and not just a tad over a half hour like they gave me instead.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Feng Shui by Doldrums (Review) Wonderful CD, looking forward to more, and to getting the rest of this band’s back catalog.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Miniature Portraits by Five Style (Review) Five Style’s musical hyperactivity makes for an interesting, albeit exhausting listen.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Lapsed by Bardo Pond (Review) This is one dirty album, and wonderfully so at that.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Cool September Skies by LN (Review) It’s pretty obvious what kind of sound they’re going for, and it’s not a bad sound.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Beat by Bowery Electric (Review) It is challenging, but digging underneath the surface could just reveal some interesting tidbits.
Dec 21, 2000 Music Pygmalion by Slowdive (Review) This was Slowdive’s swan song, and a gorgeous one at that.
Dec 20, 2000 Music The Cycle of Days and Seasons by Hood (Review) I say that I’m frustrated by this album because it’s very easy for me to dismiss it, when a part of me knows I should be enraptured by it.
Dec 10, 2000 Music Come On Die Young by Mogwai (Review) Picks right up where their ferocious debut, 1997’s Young Team, left off.
Dec 10, 2000 Music Sweet Tip by Insides (Review) It’s still Insides… so it’s not all bad. It’s not great either.
Nov 19, 2000 Music Dream Signals in Full Circles by Tristeza (Review) One of those rare cases where you can call a record repetitive and mean it as a compliment.
Nov 3, 2000 Music Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós (Review) Songs like these belong in movies at those pivotal scenes when someone has a religious experience, when long-lost lovers are finally reunited, or when someone is brought back from the brink of death.