“Music” Archives

The Missing Brazilians project apparently felt that dub could be even stranger still.

How many times can you listen to airy, jangly pop songs about all-around mopeyness before it all starts to coalesce into one tearjerking mass?

There’s not enough that can be said for this disc or Rod Mckuen’s dignified narrative genius.

Listening to Third Site has been an education on the meaning of “ambience.”

This record is one of the greatest jewels of emotion and creativity to emerge from 1998.

This sounds more like something that would’ve appealed to my high school youth group, or avid viewers of VH-1.

This recording is special simply because it captures Gil doing what he does best.

Call it brilliant, call it wrong, but it will certainly cause listeners with a more delicate palate some pause.

If you’re of a sensitive disposition, you won’t like this album. Trust me.

The music on this CD seems very fitting for a film about Divine messages.

The album is full of songs about distant relationships and lost loved ones.

A perfect example of music that can be social commentary and pleasurable listening.

Haunting female-fronted atmospheric music in the vein of Flying Saucer Attack and Low.

Dirty Three play a blend of swampy yet cliché-less blues, minimalist jazz, and scaled down chamber music.

Tindersticks consolidate upon the wry intimacy and skewed pop sensibilities that has seen them regularly top critics’ polls.

Bryars does an excellent job with this album, writing pieces that strengthen and bolster the tramp’s voice without overpowering it.

Moves from successful orchestral trip-hop to harrowing-yet-monotonous techno.

‘Post to Wire’ sounds like something you’d expect from a label like 4AD rather than what was once the home of grunge.

Matthews seems to love to play with words as much as as he loves to play with orchestration and arrangements.

Eric Matthews has achieved an interesting, mysterious pop sound that oozes suaveness and sophistication.