Apr 20, 2002 Control by Pedro The Lion (Review) A concept album that reveals the lives of the supposedly righteous for the moral travesties they really are.
Apr 20, 2002 No Solace in Sleep by Aarktica (Review) It’s an intense experience, and not one you’ll soon forget.
Apr 14, 2002 Elm Street by Lanterna (Review) The album’s at its best when the music is more atmospheric and cinematic.
Apr 14, 2002 Rivulets by Rivulets (Review) Like a set of old, grainy family photographs you stumble across, not so much comforting as haunting.
Apr 14, 2002 To Spirit Back the Mews: An Asthmatic Kitty Compilation by Various Artists (Review) 90% of this comp is filled with beautiful, lo-fi treasures.
Apr 14, 2002 Learning About Your Scale by Half-Handed Cloud (Review) Criticizing John Ringhofer for making strange music is pointless because it’s obvious he has no intent to do otherwise.
Mar 23, 2002 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 The Future That Used To Be by Mark Protus (Review) Mark Protus goes from hard rock to country without flinching.
Mar 23, 2002 Late Night/Early Morning EP by Esthelle (Review) A nice EP offering 3 quite different tracks.
Mar 23, 2002 Laughing All the While by Echo Orbiter (Review) Echo Orbiter have made a good record that uses a lot of old tricks, but in relatively new ways.
Mar 23, 2002 Hotel Lives by Simon Joyner (Review) A collection of stark, regretful vignettes of longing, loneliness, broken dreams, and haunting memories.
Mar 23, 2002 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 Bright Flight by The Silver Jews (Review) Unfortunately, the album lacks the tunes to keep up with its masterful lyrics.
Feb 27, 2002 Songs in a Northern Key by Varnaline (Review) Songs in a Northern Key shows an artist at the height of his powers.
Feb 27, 2002 Neu! 75 by Neu! (Review) Like both the albums that preceded it, Neu! 75 offers what are at times, frustrating glimpses of possibilities.
Feb 27, 2002 Amnesiac by Radiohead (Review) Perhaps Radiohead’s most intense, experimental, and unconventional album to date.
Feb 26, 2002 Structures From Silence by Steve Roach (Review) These compositions move and flow like giant pools of color, shifting at the same graceful pace as the landscape’s colors when the moon slowly moves over it.