This is dense music that pulls at tiny crevices in your soul, slowly unfolding before you. And if that’s murky as hell, well I’m not from around here.
Author Kyle Lemmon
The Sea and Cake – Car Alarm
It may have only taken three months to hammer out their eighth album in the studio but The Sea and Cake’s latest dessert could have firmed up a little longer before it was cast into the seas of production. Despite being sociable to the last strum, nobody wants soggy cake at a party.
The Good Natured – Warriors EP
The Newbury wunderkind wears her electronic influences like a awkward carpet instead of a sleek dress. Kyle Lemmon reviews.
Calexico – Carried to Dust
Joey Burns and John Convertino, the duo behind Calexico’s globe-trotting music, draw heavily on their favorite sounds for their sixth outing. Spaghetti Western dalliances, Portuguese fado, Mexican mariachi shuffles, and the veteran group’s signature snare-and-bass interplay subside the musical dust storms of collaboration.
Pacific! – Reveries
Kyle Lemmon is slippin’ and slidin’ all over the grooves created by another Swedish act looking to attack the world.
An Interview With Max Richter
Hot on the heels of Max Richter’s previous album comes the gorgeously framed 24 Postcards In Full Colour. Kyle Lemmon interviews the post-classical composer/producer.
Tricky – Knowle West Boy
The true appeal of the serviceable Knowle West Boy is the sense that Tricky is letting go of old habits and digging up his roots. Sorry folks…not Maxinquaye’s roots. Kyle Lemmon reviews.
Silver Ray – Homes For Everyone
Australia is known for its variegated topography. The watertight Melbourne trio Silver Ray cut some of their post-rock fat and trot over musical lands that are just as diverse as the place they call home. Kyle Lemmon reviews.
Windsor for the Derby – How We Lost
Post-rock purists tend to detest the emasculation of “their music” for conventional melodies but new audiences can’t quite get their heads wrapped around bands like Windsor for the Derby. Their ceaseless waffling between genres is baffling. Kyle Lemmon reviews.
TLOBF Loves…Rubies
Rubies’ vaporizing disco-soul harmonies coalesced on their debut, ‘Explode from the Center’, from the connections the Oakland, CA band has with artists like Feist, Eirik Glambek Bøe and Lars Skoglund.
Spiritualized – Songs in A&E
After all the daemons Pierce has escaped he is one fortunate chap, but not as lucky as us – the listeners of his sixth disc as the frontman of Spiritualized. Kyle Lemmon reviews.
Ponytail – Ice Cream Spiritual
Ponytail is all the mental baggage we carry into adulthood scrawled on the walls in glorious finger paint. Kyle Lemmon reviews the sophomore release.
Totally Free Downloads – ‘Madame Butterflies’ – Destroyer and ‘Prodigy’ – Wye Oak
Free download tracks from Destroyer and Wye Oaks via Merge Records!
Tortoise, Bill Callahan, the Ex Kick Off P4k Fest Lunch Series
Grab a Potbelly’s sandwich and party with Pitchfork’s “Audible Architecture: Chicago Nightclubs at Noon.” The summer series inaugurates with Tortoise, Bill Callahan, the Ex.
R.E.M./Modest Mouse/The National – Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA, 31/05/08
It felt like the ’90s all over again during R.E.M.’s blistering performance at Berkeley’s Greek Theatre. Modest Mouse and The National opened for the alt-rock elder statesmen. Kyle Lemmon reviews.
The Explorers Club – Freedom Wind
You’ve got to applaud The Explorers Club for being so brave with their love of music – a situation their hero knows all about.
