I can always dig a 70s-style throwback album, and Spidergawd do that really well. I love the guitar on this, the tone, the effects, not to mention the skill with which it's played. Spidergawd go full-throttle the whole album, constantly moving with complicated pieces that sound spacey and airy, while simultaneously rocking. The final three-piece suite is pretty great, it all flows into each other really well. There are a couple tracks that fall a little flat, but in general, this is a pretty cool album. _________________ Progressive Rock
This album is fun, but ultimately feels a bit lacking. The first track is great, "Hollywood Squares" is catchy, it's fun, it's upbeat, and I was hoping the rest of the album would be similar. While the remainder of the album is all pretty upbeat, it kind of loses its shimmer after awhile. While I know that this album really isn't about lyrics (it's a dance album), songs like "Eating Makeup" and "Smash The TV" feel pretty much devoid of any kind of meaning. Bogart isn't shy, he'll be blunt and tell you what he wants, whether he wants to go clubbing ("Club With Me") or get lubed up and bang ("Lubed") he's straightforward, all while sounding like a rainbow-colored cocaine binge at a rave. _________________ Progressive Rock
I am completely fascinated by this album. Anna Homler is a performance artist who, back in the 80s, started recorded some songs on a cassette tape of her chanting in some made up language. Now, RVGN Intl. has paired her up with Steve Moshier, and they've recorded those strange chants and put them into an album. What's fascinating to me is how hypnotic these chants can get. They don't actually mean anything, they're all made up words, but somehow they just captivate you. The first five tracks are mostly her chants, but the final two tracks are what I'm most enamored with. "Sirens" is a 12-minute track that consists mostly of Homler clicking and squealing over a synth drone, it's almost ambient-like, but so strange that it never quite fades into the background. The best track, in my opinion, is the closer "Celestial Ash", a 17-minute track in which Homler's chants are looped and delayed so that her voice becomes layers of voices, like a dense fog of voices surrounding and enveloping you. The whole album is completely mesmerizing and fascinating. _________________ Progressive Rock
Really interesting electronic(ish) music that really calls back Stereolab's stuff. Which makes sense considering that Cavern Of Anti-Matter features Tim Gane and Joe Dilworth from the band. That context will give you the best possible idea of what this album sounds like, as it's not entirely electronic, but a mix of electronic with art pop and all the different things that Stereolab used to do. What I love about this album is how unique each track is, the sounds and instruments used are constantly changing, the grooves keep shifting, the time signatures change, everything is different. There's Kraftwerk-sounding stuff, even some more rock-oriented songs like the one featuring Bradford Cox (which, in all honesty, kind of feels out of place). It's a supremely interesting album though and if you're a Stereolab fan, you'll dig it. _________________ Progressive Rock
While I do love Billy Joel, he's always suffered from inconsistency. Every album of his, except for The Stranger, is really off and on. There are great highs that are some of the best pop music of the 70s, and then really boring lows. This album has two highs: "Piano Man" and "Captain Jack". Both have been played to death (especially the former) over the years, but they're great songs, exceptionally well-written. The rest of the album has songs that are either decent or boring. "You're My Home" is cute, but Joel will write much better love ballads in the future, "Somewhere Along The Line" is nice, and the rest is fairly forgettable. This is an album you listen to for the highlights, and forget the rest. _________________ Progressive Rock
I think "monolithic" is a perfect descriptor for this. There's this noisy static that's constantly there as an anchor for your ears while other variations happen here and there. The whole industrial vibe is great, it sounds all so mechanical but simultaneously captivating. I'll be honest, the 30 minutes of the album went by fast, I never found myself wondering what was next, but rather I was just fascinated by what was happening at that particular moment in time, and because of that, the whole thing blew by. It's a really good noise record, it never gets boring, it's always engaging and it always stays interesting.
I enjoyed Santigold's last effort, but this pretty much fell flat for me. Santigold is taking a snipe at American consumerist culture, which is fine, but in all honesty, the lyrics on this album don't have quite the wit and bite to be effective at it. Lyrically, it's not bad, but it's not particularly special either. From a musical perspective, I'm impressed how each song is able to be unique and weave it's way through genres, whether it's synthpop or electronica or trap music, each song is unique in its own way musically, and that's a big positive on the album. But only a couple of the songs actually stand out from the rest, the remainder are fairly forgettable, albeit musically somewhat interesting. It's a decent album, not as good as her last one, but decent. _________________ Progressive Rock
This album isn't exactly accessible, and it's not supposed to be. This album is supposed to smack you across the face and completely disorient you. It's a sonic attack, meant to throw you for a complete loop so that, by the end of the 27-minute album, you're sitting there saying "What the hell just happened?". Similar to Roly Porter's release from earlier this year, Brood Ma bears a lot of similarity to electronic artists like Lotic and The Haxan Cloak, but what's most impressive about this album is how Brood Ma maintains his own unique sound throughout. There's definitely a certain, dystopian mood to the album, but there isn't a single style that you could put this in. It's a wild ride of an album, an impressive one, and one that will blow by you so fast you'll be left behind looking at the distant horizon that this album just sped past you towards. _________________ Progressive Rock
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