by snoadmin | Dec 27, 2012 | Archives-old
Holograms – Holograms Holograms’ self-titled debut evokes the gray energy of Joy Division and the synth based percussion of the ’80s. Though a bit odd in theory, the Swedish quartet takes all of their frustration and despair and produces something that’s...
by snoadmin | Dec 25, 2012 | End of the Year Awards
#6 Album: Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory As soon as the somber piano of “No Future/No Past” introduces Attack on Memory, it’s clear that Cloud Nothings are no longer the snotty power-poppers we’ve known. Setting out to create “an attack on memory of what people...
by snoadmin | Dec 24, 2012 | Archives-old
Zammuto – Zammuto When The Books broke up, music fans mourned. The band produced some of the most thoughtful, inspiring, and creative music of this generation between Nick Zammuto’s found-sound samples and Paul De Jong’s cello loops. Zammuto is...
by snoadmin | Dec 24, 2012 | End of the Year Awards
#7 Album: Ty Segall – Twins Even for someone as regularly prolific as Ty Segall, 2012 seemed a busy year. Between producing albums for Ex-Cult and Heavy Cream, touring, and pronouncing his last name (apparently it’s like “seagullÛ), the king of the West Coast garage...
by snoadmin | Dec 23, 2012 | Archives-old
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp We can thank heartbreak for an endless wealth of classic albumsÛÓ Blue, On the Beach, Funeral, For Emma. But rarely has an album inhabited heartbreak so well that it universalized it. And rarely has one succeeded with such fire and passion as...
