Category archives: Album Reviews
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314 days ago
- It’s beautifully arranged. Dude’s album Kid Gloves--I mean. Plug ‘smartly’ in for ‘beautifully’ and the message stays the same. Tony DeNardo (the Dude/the Muggs) has tapped into a special pocket of sound. The album heads back a few decades in its production, building around a core of songs and plugging in horns and mellotron for purpose of flair.
Enhanced by the production, the songs flaunt the[...]
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314 days ago
- Electric Corpse was forged when a re-animated corpse was struck by a bolt of New Wave. The resulting creation recorded a self titled EP and then set a small Vietnamese village, Chang-Po-Shi, ablaze.
Screamed one villager: "Please stop burning us! Some of your guitar riffs remind me of the Pixies!"
There were no survivors.
The EP is a solid blend of shoegaze guitars, reverb drenched vocals[...]
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319 days ago
- An ode to the era of Shrimper cassettes has arrived in the assortment of lo-fi bliss that is Somebody Should Give That Guy A Hug. Its short as fuck--there's 4 songs and the whole thing is over in less than 3 minutes--and the songs are catchy folk dirges with occasional clatter going on over top. "The Bridge of the River Chipola" is easily the most beautiful song heard in recent memory and details [...]
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326 days ago
- Fight! Fight! Fight! is a title not meant to actually condone fisticuffs but rather a call to listen to electro-pop music. Its the first release from The History of Panic and the album itself has been sometime in the making. Gerald Roesser (formerly of Pas/Cal) started the project in 1999, however he spent 10 years training with Yoda on Dagobah and then two years just making a ton of sandwiches fo[...]
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329 days ago
- The following review is contributed by Jaye Allen Thomas of Rogue Satellites. Odd Hours releases their new EP this Saturday at The Old Miami and will be accompanied by Future Slang, Ferndale Acid Scene, and N-2 Submission ft. The Impaler. With out further ado, Mr. Thomas:
Odd Hours’ new Solar Plexus Power of Babooshka EP begins with the flickering static of a detuned radio and a wicked drone th[...]
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341 days ago
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You can catch Fawn's release party tonight at The Loving Touch in Ferndale. They will be accompanied by Fur and Jamaican Queens.
Info on Fawn here
-jr
Deer
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352 days ago
- After six total releases, All These Fingers (ATF) has instrumental hip-hop down. Their latest release, Lounge Physique, comes hot on the heels of April’s Archetypes & Windfalls. While the album’s explore similar musical themes Archetypes & Windfalls is the evening and “Lounge Physique” the day. The sounds of the latter are just a little funkier—the organs and horns a shade brighter.
Fo[...]
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396 days ago
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Grand Rapids' The FUZZrites are obviously privy to this little-known truth as the songs found on Baby Cakes (Spinout Records) are awash in deliciously raspy square waves and crunchy, crackling guitars. Retro-garage-surf fuzz---yeah, that's an apt descriptor for this band's stylistic leanings. Throw in some pop sensibility (only the final track is appreciably longer than the three-minute pop th[...]
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398 days ago
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35 years after the first Ramones record came out and it’s still a landmark of punk innovation and youthful energy. Fast-forward to 2012, somewhere just south of Detroit in Northern Ohio. The Dumb Easies take the torch, add some earlier and later influences, and throw Love Love Love (Cytoblast Records) right in our face. 11 catchy-as-hell tracks of bubble-gum rock and roll like the Ramones –[...]
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426 days ago
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40 Stitches Later, an Americana/Alt-Country outfit from Lansing, offer up some good North-Midwestern twang against a bleak setting of unemployment and everyday blue collar struggles on their new CD Rust Belt Never Sleeps. The title of the record is a nod that’s setting the bar a bit high, fellas, but the images behind it seem appropriate. The characters and stories are dark, but it’s not alway[...]
