Added on July 5, 2016
Nicholas Kennedy
Deerhunter , deluxe , omni , Tears For Fears , trouble in mind
“Let’s share champagne in the sand”, invites Omni vocalist Philip Frobos over the choruses of ‘Wire’, the third song off of their playful and strange debut on Trouble in Mind Records, Deluxe. It’s a pretty picture, that lyric. Makes me think of something Tears for Fears might’ve written for Songs from the Big Chair. But […]
Added on December 6, 2012
Mike Turner
Alabama Shakes , Animal Collective , Ariel Pink , Bats For Lashes , Beach Fossils , Beach House , best of 2012 , Captured Tracks , Clinic , Cold Pumas , Deerhoof , DIIV , Dirty Projectors , Dum Dum Girls , Grimes , Grizzly Bear , Jack White , Japandroids , La La Vasquez , Laetitia Sadier , mac demarco , Micachu and the Shapes , Mike Turner , Minutemen , Mumford & Sons , Naomi Punk , New Order , Of Montreal , Passion Pit , Pixies , Shins , Tame Impala , Tears For Fears , The Bastards of Fate , The School , Twin Shadow , Wild Nothing , Windowspeak , Yo La Tengo
Dum Dum Girls had a massive year — the Coke Zero of the indie world. You know, same taste as the original formula but not as filling.
Added on July 14, 2011
Everett True
album review , baggy , Britpop , Can , Chapterhouse , Coldplay , criticism , Echo & The Bunnymen , Everett True , Kings Of Leon , Kraftwerk , Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark , Pink Floyd , Psychedelic Furs , Pulp , Ride , Simple Minds , Skying , Suede , Swervedriver , Syd Barrett , Tears For Fears , The Blue Nile , The Chameleons , The Horrors , The Stone Roses , U2 , XL
‘Endless Blue’ is Chapterhouse bad. Let’s not say any more about it.
Added on June 20, 2011
Scott Creney
Americana , Antony , Beards , Bon Iver , Brian Eno , Bruce Hornsby , Coldplay , Destroyer , Doobie Brothers , Fleet Foxes , Scott Creney , Tears For Fears , TV On The Radio
Bon Iver is hazier than you expect. It is lost and narcoticized, simultaneously desperate and asleep.
