Monday, April 18, 2011

One sentence album reviews (#12)

No Joy - Ghost Blonde (2010): noisy shoegaze with beautiful sirens crooning over the top 4/5

Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi (2010): avant garde roots and folk music. Words I never thought would go together, yet it's bliss. 5/5

Uncommonmenfrommars - I Hate My Band (2010): fun punk from French, luckily in English though. 3.5/5

Plebeian Grandstand - How Hate Is Hard To Define (2010): chaotic hardcore, channels French anger yet slows down in all the right places 4/5

Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights (2011): Brilliant hardcore that is turned on it's head with an acoustic finish to the album 4.5/5

Dropkick Murphys - Going Out In Style (2011): 3 listens in, and it may already be my favourite celtic-punk album. Of all time. 4.5/5

Bayside - Killing Time (2011): It's like alternative rock meets pop-punk, and I scarily like it 4/5

Radiohead - The King of Limbs (2011): too much like background music to be their best, couple of ok songs makes it not their worst. Middling. 3.3/5

The Strokes - Angles (2011): Every time I've tried to listen to this album so far I've fallen asleep. 2.5/5

Akron/Family - S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT (2011): The first track had me thinking I was listening to Sleigh Bells, but luckily it became electronic-folk 4/5

Protest the Hero - Scurrilous (2011): 70's metal style vocals over some of the most technical musicianship I've ever heard 4/5

Selenites - Jeder Für Sich Und Gott Gegen Alle (2009): Wow. So the French do heavy music really awesomly apparently. 4.5/5

Forming - 7" (2010): Excellent fuzz rock EP in the style of Dinosaur Jr, yet signed to a crazy hardcore label 4/5

Boris - New Album (2011): Experimental metal band go electro J-pop... Confusing, But oh so good in a guilty pleasure way. 4/5

Rise Against - End Game (2011): Listen to this. Now listen to Siren Song of the Counterculture. 'Nuff said 2/5 #Iliketheiroldstuff

Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (2011): typical post-rock in every way possible. 2.5/5

J Mascis - Several Shades Of Why (2011): First solo album from the Dinosaur Jr lead, sounds exacly like an acoustic Dinosaur Jr album. 3.5/5

Shigeto - Full Circle (2010): quiet ambient electronica that paints some beautiful soundscapes 4.5/5

Deafheaven - Road to Judah (2011): 4 songs, 40 minutes of dark, dark black metal. Dark like my soul. 4/5

Peter Broderick - How They Are (2010): unassuming, sombre and beautiful piano led singer-songwriter, who's normally a violinist. 4.5/5

Supermachiner - Rust (2009): Listen to this instrumental scenery. Then listen to his full-time band, Converge. Is it really that different? 4.5/5

Calories - Basic Nature (2010): Every song on this album sounds different, like an homage to each subgenre of indie over the last decade. 3.5/5

Frank (Just Frank) - The Brutal Wave (2010): A bunch of French dudes who never left the 80's and nu-wave and post-punk behind 4/5

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