“Music” Archives

Royal captures the beautiful sound found in well-done emo and leaves you with elegant melodies.

Looking for high quality love songs? This is a good record for doing that.

Ween has spawned a blend of their best feats and presented them on one disc.

Jon Sonnenberg and Robert Gutschow’s latest is fuller-sounding than its predecessor, but still contains a few inessential bits.

William Orbit takes pieces by the likes of Vivaldi and Beethoven, as well as Cage, Satie, and Górecki, and runs them through his bank of synthesizers.

“I think that my conviction has always been to write about what God has brought me through.”

If there was ever a band that we here at Opus wish would make it big, it’d probably be Havalina Rail Co.

He describes his music as a a little bit of folk, a bit of blues, and a lot of pop and rock.

This is a must-hear record if you want a truly different type of pop.

By the middle of the CD, I was beginning to really look forward to hearing someone from this stable of artists take on something downtempo and textured.

Joe Hisaishi’s masterful soundtrack ably conveys both the beauty and darkness in Hayao Miyazaki’s anime masterpiece.

Blue Wonder Power Milk is comparable to Hooverphonic’s past accomplishment, though not nearly as dark.

A few of the tracks are comparable to older Sonic Youth.

Maybe they are “OK Computer” leftovers, but on the first play, it felt like a brand new album.

What keeps Molasses from sounding like a tired rendition of old folk numbers is the alien sense of dread and foreboding just below the surface.

I am here to say that Sigur Rós lives up to everything you’ve ever read or heard about them.

Each track blends into the other, providing constant music for dancing.

A sense of refuge allows for a recording as sparse, mysterious, and intimate as this one.

Though hundreds of miles from the ocean, Los Straitjackets echo the feel of rushing waves hovering over your head in their impressive debut.

A lush (npi) mixture of hip-hop beats, vinyl scratches, orchestral undercurrents, ominous basslines, and lazily seductive vocals