“Music” Archives

Charity Empressa’s “drone” music makes for a beautiful and consistently rewarding listen.

Björk’s latest trades the icy bombast of Homogenic for deeper, richer, more intimate soundscapes and incredibly revealing lyrics.

With some better production and a larger label, Narcoleptic could do very well for themselves.

If you’re familiar with Plone or Boards of Canada, you should know what to expect from David.

If gothic music lived up to it’s name this is what it would sound like.

Timonium is adept at playing music in which silence and space is as much an instrument as the guitar or drums.

It’s lounge music for the common kid. It’s a jazzy emo-pop.

Easton isn’t doing anything mind-blowing here. He’s just very adept at penning good songs, musically and lyrically.

My first impression of Soviet’s sound was a mixture of Depeche Mode and Devo.

There’s a depth, often dark and mysterious, that flows around the base of each song.

They’re a rock band intent on ripping the entrails out of their Korgs, producing the skronkiest, bleepiest sounds they can — and getting booties to shake and bodies to move across the land.

Mojave 3 has gone for a starker acoustic sound that’s stripped down, sparse, and surprisingly more inviting.

Not a masterpiece, but it shows a band that could be worth keeping an ear on in this decade.

Despite the album’s fairly minimal nature, there’s something vast and alien about these songs.

I’m not comparing Lasso to the greats of country yet, but they have the potential of putting out an album worthy of comparison.