1. Better Than You 2. Power and Sacrifice 3. You Know Nothing 4. Song for Dead Time 5. Will We Survive 6. Love Will Save You 7. Failure 8. Song for the Sun 9. Miracle of Love 10. When She Breathes 11. Why Are We Alive? 12. The Most Unfortunate Lie I don’t know where [...]
Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
Low – Songs For A Dead Pilot (1997)
April 6, 2010
1. Will The Night 2. Condescend 3. Born By The Wires 4. Be There 5. Landlord 6. Hey Chicago Low’s I Could Live In Hope is one of my perrenial favorites, an album I tend to forget even exists until something reminds me of it, at which point I’ll spend a few days absolutely devouring [...]
Slint – Spiderland (1991)
March 5, 2010
1. Breadcrumb Trail 2. Nosferatu Man 3. Don, Aman 4. Washer 5. For Dinner… 6. Good Morning, Captain First of all, I haven’t written anything on here for a while, and I’m not really sure why. Lack of inspiration, I guess. But I’ve got a few hours to kill before class so I figured, why [...]
Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
September 29, 2009
1. Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine 2. Heart Cooks Brain 3. Convenient Parking 4. Lounge (Closing Time) 5. Jesus Christ Was An Only Child 6. Doin’ the Cockroach 7. Cowboy Dan 8. Trailer Trash 9. Out of Gas 10. Long Distance Drunk 11. Shit Luck 12. Trucker’s Atlas 13. Polar Opposites 14. Bankrupt on Selling 15. [...]
Jay-Z – Reasonable Doubt (1996)
September 24, 2009
1. Can’t Knock the Hustle (feat. Mary J. Blige) 2. Politics as Usual 3. Brooklyn’s Finest (feat. The Notorious B.I.G.) 4. Dead Presidents II 5. Feelin’ It (feat. Mecca) 6. D’Evils 7. 22 Two’s 8. Can I Live 9. Ain’t No Nigga (feat. Foxy Brown) 10. Friend or Foe 11. Coming of Age (feat. Memphis [...]
Godspeed You Black Emperor! – F♯A♯∞ (1997/1998)
September 9, 2009
1. The Dead Flag Blues 2. East Hastings 3. Providence NOTE: F♯A♯∞ was originally released on vinyl in 1997, and was (to my knowledge) completely rerecorded for CD in 1998, with new content added and several segments reordered. The vinyl release had two sides, “Nervous, Sad, Poor…” on side A and “Bleak, Uncertain, Beautiful…” on [...]
Wolves in the Throne Room – Two Hunters (2007)
September 8, 2009
1. Dea Artio 2. Vastness and Sorrow 3. Cleansing 4. I Will Lay Down My Bones Among the Rocks and the Roots I wanted to write about something that was, more or less, the opposite of Joanna Newsom. Originally I was going to write this post on Burzum. I had about two paragraphs of the [...]
Joanna Newsom – Ys (2006)
September 6, 2009
1. Emily 2. Monkey and Bear 3. Sawdust and Diamonds 4. Only Skin 5. Cosmia Since my last review was of a band that is notably lyrically deficient, I figured I would follow it up with something lyrically outstanding. I had a lot of trouble choosing between this one and Milk-Eyed Mender, but while I [...]
Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights (2002)
September 2, 2009
1. Untitled 2. Obstacle 1 3. NYC 4. PDA 5. Say Hello To Angels 6. Hands Away 7. Obstacle 2 8. Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down 9. Roland 10. The New 11. Lief Erikson This is me making good on my attempts to start updating this thing a bit more frequently. [...]
Sunny Day Real Estate – Diary (1994)
September 1, 2009
1. Seven 2. In Circles 3. About An Angel 4. Round 5. 47 6. The Blankets Were Stairs 7. Phuerto Skuerto 8. Shadows 9. 48 10. Grendel 11. Sometimes It’s been a while since I’ve updated this. I expected as much when I started this blog. Even though I have hundreds of albums I could, [...]
