Mar 8, 2003 Music Pure Tone Audiometry by Aarktica (Review) There’s a quality to Pure Tone Audiometry that plays with your perception of the sounds therein.
Mar 2, 2003 Music Scarlet’s Walk by Tori Amos (Review) Scarlet’s Walk is a much safer album which offers no real surprises.
Mar 2, 2003 Music Panchroma by Waterwheel (Review) Panchroma exists somewhere between the worlds of Seefeel and O Yuki Conjugate.
Mar 2, 2003 Music Melody A.M. by Röyksopp (Review) This album will turn any mundane drive to work into an epic journey down the Autobahn.
Mar 2, 2003 Music At Dawn by My Morning Jacket (Review) Though a bit bloated in places, My Morning Jacket’s sophomore album is often a gorgeous blend of country and psychedelia.
Mar 2, 2003 Music Waltz for Koop by Koop (Review) Ever so sweet and it will bring a smile to the face of even the most hardened cynic.
Feb 23, 2003 Movies Running Out of Time 2 by Johnnie To (Review) A preposterous sequel that offers no real justification for its existence.
Feb 23, 2003 Movies Ashes of Time by Wong Kar-Wai (Review) It’s hard to make a definite statement about a film so intent on being dreamlike and intangible, on a genre film that’s anything but.
Feb 21, 2003 Movies Christmas in August by Hur Jin-Ho (Review) The premise itself, about a man who is slowly dying and the girl that he falls in love with, would seem prone to sappiness.
Feb 19, 2003 Music Volume Plus Volume by Rescue (Review) I think my feelings for Volume Plus Volume are best expressed in a 5-part series of haikus.
Feb 19, 2003 Music Morning Noon Night by Jim Guthrie (Review) Guthrie’s understated blend of pure pop with experimentalism calls to mind the work of Sufjan Stevens.
Feb 19, 2003 Music Blue Cotton Skin by Petracovich (Review) Jessica Peters balances her electronic and acoustic leanings with considerable skill.
Feb 19, 2003 Music 100th Window by Massive Attack (Review) I was surprised and dismayed at how unaffecting it soon became.
Feb 18, 2003 Music Get Into It by Tora! Tora! Torrance! (Review) Give Tora! Tora! Torrance! a try, and long live the Rock.
Feb 18, 2003 Music Light a Match for I Deserve to Burn by The Beautiful Mistake (Review) Sonically, The Beautiful Mistake is a clichéd culmination of everything currently happening in the musical underground.
Feb 18, 2003 Music Linear Language by Syst (Review) I simply forgot that I was listening to a white boy and just starting soaking in some nice beats and skilled rhyming.
Feb 18, 2003 Anime Zone of the Enders: Idolo by Tetsuya Watanabe (Review) I’m not one to miss out on a good, solid mecha show, and Idolo does offer plenty of mecha action.
Feb 18, 2003 Music Formations by Mileece (Review) The album’s focus is more intent on creating dreamy textures rather than anything more concrete.
Feb 18, 2003 Music Projecto by Kobi (Review) Kobi create pieces of stunning focus and intensity, especially given the unstructured approach behind their construction.
Feb 18, 2003 Music Silver Line on a Black Sea by The Potomac Accord (Review) While there are undeniable Godspeed comparisons, The Potomac Accord’s music is never quite so bombastic.