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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Forty-five
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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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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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”
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