Album Reviews

Melodiva - “Landscapes | Reimagined” Review

Musicians nowadays have to work with very fine margins. Do something that’s too wild and you lose the public attention, but do something too familiar and you’re branded as being unoriginal. Work on constantly expanding your musical vocabulary, and you risk alienating…
Album Reviews

GlasGlas - “GlasGlas” Review

Most pop and rock stars are mad, bad, and nearly always find themselves in a terrible state. They’re existences are the very model of an unbalanced life. And, generally, they’re proud of it, advertising themselves as bad examples and as people who mimic the behaviour of…
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The Moviemen - "Prologue" Review

Maybe it’s not worth making too much of a fuss about it, but The Beatles never thought they’d get more out of being in a band than sleeping behind an old cinema and being afforded the luxury of haunting the Reeperbahn. They thought that the songs they wrote had been…
Alternative History

Top 10 Songs by The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips seemed too weird to ever be successful and were, ultimately, too good for the general public to ignore. With their wild psychedelic experimentations and sweet, honest pop songs, The Flaming Lips are one of the greatest indie-rock bands of all time.
7.5
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Munan and Ari Alexander and Cecil Alexander Reviewed

Munan – Fake Love Friday Night Reality is a thing of the past. And, if you have enough dimes in your pocket, you’re bound to pay how many of them it takes to make fantasy permanent. But don’t feel bad about it. This is the way we’ve been trained. Yes…
7.8
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Brian Noyes and TheFleok Reviewed

Brian Noyes – Dollhouse Man Where do all the pop songwriters go? If they can swing it, they go to the studio of the big pop stars of the day. They ask if they can write them songs. And if it’s an important writing session, they get paired up with two to six other…
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Beck - "Odelay" Reviewed and Revisited

Beck had, by the mid-1990s, created the kind of quirky alt-rock super hit, “Loser,” that seemed to have sentenced him to a career as a one-hit wonder. Instead, with “Odelay,” Beck proved he was married to no musical style, that his ideas and taste…
8.3
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Barak Palmer and Spooky Bambina Reviewed

Barak Palmer – Lucious  Most people would like to inspire respect in those around them. They’d like to be asked to do things and get greeted with a “Hello” when they walk into a room. That’s natural! The majority of people dream of making it big and having…
7.8
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Onyeka and dwn bad Reviewed

Onyeka – People In Our Lives Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Dream Pop Being a devoted fan of an artist carries with it some responsibility. Let’s not kid ourselves. And, by the same token, being an artist who is lucky to have admirers, comes with a number of…