by snoadmin | Mar 7, 2014 | Archives-old
Bow down This is the album where Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, proves herself peerless. The eleven songs on her latest, eponymous project could have been written by no one but herself, displaying the poppy yet wildly unpredictable songwriting of her previous releases,...
by snoadmin | Mar 7, 2014 | Archives-old
Fast and efficient garage punk. Interrupt, the fourth album from Bleeding Rainbow, is a quick affair, running just over a half hour. Bleeding Rainbow nonetheless fit a lot into that half hour, mostly by playing fast and cutting the frills. Most songs on the album...
by snoadmin | Mar 7, 2014 | Archives-old
A mixed bag of funky and sometimes punky art-rock. When Ava Luna released PRPL, the lead single from Electric Balloon, some made the mistake of viewing the slow, synth R&B track as a sign that the Brooklyn art-funk group had moved away from the chaos that...
by snoadmin | Mar 7, 2014 | Archives-old
Ex-noise rockers settle into new identity On last year’s New Moon, The Men made headlines by exploring alt-country in addition to their punkier, noisier sound that they made their bones off of, essentially splitting that record into two halves. There’s...
by snoadmin | Mar 7, 2014 | Archives-old
She’ll invite you over for macaroons, in a kind of creepy way. At 77, Linda Perhacs came out of retirement to make her second album in 44 years. Her first album, Parallelograms, flopped on the charts, but gained a cult like following through internet forums and...
