Serena Maneesh – Serena Maneesh (Playlouder) A debut album from a very potentially exciting new indie band, this is both defined and hamstrung by a love of My Bloody Valentine. Granted, loving MBV is never really a problem, but this band’s thrall of the Creation wonders is never really developed into an identity for themselves.Continue reading “Forty-four”
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Burning Star Core – The Very Heart Of The World (Thin Wrist) I’m not really sure what to make of this, which has to be something of a rarity for this writer. Burning Star Core is one man, one C. Spencer Yeh, who is apparently classically trained (aren’t all these noise experimentalists) and has decidedContinue reading “Forty-five”
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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”
Albums of the year: 2005Preface That’s right, 2005. I’m posting this list due to a combination of factors. The first is simple indolence; I have had this list pretty much prepared since February but, as it was unfinished, held off due to some reviews getting lost and others having not yet been written. Summer monthsContinue reading
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