Kid606 – Resilience (Tigerbeat6) It’s funny what returning to an album after a while can do for ones appreciation of it. When I first heard Resilience, I was immensely pleased. It seemed that the inordinately talented joker of electronic music (OK, there are a few, admittedly) had finally ‘matured’, and in doing so, produced theContinue reading “Forty-six”
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Forty-seven
Queens Of The Stone Age – Lullabies To Paralyze (Interscope) Like the Cave In album of this year, Lullabies… is a good album, but one with qualification. While a new band releasing this record would impress me for being so good, the fact that this is QOTSA comes with the weight of the classic RatedContinue reading “Forty-seven”
Forty-eight
General Patton vs. The X-ecutioners – Joint Special Operations Task Force (Ipecac) Released earlier in the year than Patton’s Fantômas album, this is aurally very much a practice run for what is to follow. The key difference, though, is the method of composition. Whereas the Fantômas was essentially an incredibly complex take on the heavyContinue reading “Forty-eight”
Forty-nine
System Of A Down – Mezmerize (Sony) System Of A Down makes the right noises a lot of the time; the angst is present and correct, the riffs are usually solid and well constructed, and the occasional melody creates a level of emotional affect. However, and with little in the way of exception, I can’tContinue reading “Forty-nine”
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