One sentence album reviews (#11)

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Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement (2010): Moody post-punk with a female singer means I am less likely to bedpressed while listening 3.5/5

Mark McGuire - Living With Yourself (2010): Beautiful ambient guitar-based music, reminds me a lot of some slower Buckethead stuff. 4/5

And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Tao of the Dead (2011): Not quite as noisy as past, but a return of form for this unclassifiable band. 4/5

Architects - Here and Now (2011): A bit softer from them; as such I now refer to them as "Britain's Alexisonfire" 3/5

Bright Eyes - The People's Key (2011): It is beautiful, but there's something about Conor's voice that just doesn't seem to cut it. 3.5/5

Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours (2011): As always, the Kids deliver an album of relaxed indie; although it seems to be more stripped back than previous releases. 3.5/5

Destroyer - Kaputt (2010): Laid back rock from my favourite, albeit part-time, member of the New Pornographers. 4/5

Everyone Everywhere - The Rookie (2011): This is not the emo band of awesome. However, it is the debut of a pop-punk band of fairly good. 3.5/5

Iron and Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean (2011): I only knew him for his acoustic stuff, this is great band-backed folk. Even a bit jazzy 4/5

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - White Lunar (2009): a collection of cinematic scores from classic garage-rockers is surprising and gorgeous 4.5/5

Social Distortion - Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes (2011): More country than punk, but I guess that happens after a few decades 3/5

Scott & Charlene's Wedding - Paravista Social Club (2010): this album continues a grand tradition of excellent Australian garage rock 4.5/5

Yuck - ST (2011): It's awesome lo-fi fuzz, as if Dinosaur Jr mated with Sonic Youth

and their child dated the Japandroids. 4.5/5

The Methadones - ST (2010): I wouldn't exactly call this punk. It's very slow if it is. 2/5

Toro y Moi - Underneath the Pine (2010): I think I finally figured out what chillwave is, thanks to this album: modern elevator music 2/5

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

New Pornographers

Canada has some great indie superbands and one of my favourites has to be the New Pornographers. Their album Twin Cinema was the soundtrack to the summer of 2006 for me. I even managed to catch them back then and recorded a shockingly dodgy video on my antiquated camera technology of the past:

Their music style is just happy-pop music with some funky subject matter. Although their last few releases have fallen into the traps of tried-and-true typical indie it's still pretty damn good music in the scheme of things.

You'll be able to see them try to squeeze their extensive lineup onto the small Zoo stage on November the 9th (18+). Fingers crossed they will be bringing my favourite, yet rarely touring member, Dan Bejar (also known as Destroyer) with them. He has written most of the songs I love, the ones that have that off-kilter feel to them. Jackie Dressed in Cobras on their MySpace is one of the great examples, while Myriad Harbour is another.