Jan 13, 2007 Best of Bootie 2006 by Various Artists (Review) You’re struck by the thought that perhaps some higher power had always intended for the components to be mashed together.
Jan 3, 2007 The Night’s Bloom by Pinetop Seven (Review) A vital collection of everything that’s beautiful and evocative in the group’s spooky, forlorn music.
Dec 28, 2006 Aerial Days by Songs of Green Pheasant (Review) Aerial Days is full of tiny shimmering moments of beauty.
Dec 28, 2006 So This Is Goodbye by Junior Boys (Review) Every single note, melody, and beat on So This Is Goodbye has been streamlined and polished as much as possible.
Dec 26, 2006 And the Glass Handed Kites by Mew (Review) The self-described “world’s only indie stadium band” deliver an album that’s as bombastic as it is sincere.
Dec 17, 2006 Songs for Christmas by Sufjan Stevens (Review) I’ve heard most of the songs on here before, countless times. But I had never heard them like this, in such a sublime context.
Dec 12, 2006 Songs From Before by Max Richter (Review) Richter’s music is perfectly suited to the themes of loss, nostalgia, and alienation that permeate Haruki Murakami’s work.
Dec 7, 2006 The Twilight Sad EP by The Twilight Sad (Review) There’s a rawness and youthful recklessness that never fails to render their music beguiling, even at its loudest and most abrasive.
Dec 2, 2006 IBM 1401, A User’s Manual by Jóhann Jóhannsson (Review) A tribute to an old computer, the five long tracks that make up this disc are elegiac and gorgeous.
Nov 27, 2006 Beyond Sea and Sky by Secret Shine (Review) Rough around the edges but still full of lovely textures in which to lose yourself.
Nov 19, 2006 Songs for Creeps by The Places (Review) Annelle’s songs encapsulate entire tiny little worlds of sound, conjuring up dim images of broken down places and darkened rooms pregnant with memory and longing.