Sleeping Tapes is - get this - an ambient spoken word concept record from Jeff Bridges, noted actor and all round cool dude, in collaboration with prolific composer Keefus Ciancia. Created as a website/album for a Squarespace ad campaign and sold on a donation basis, its profits go to Jeff's charity campaign, No Kid Hungry. It's also … Continue reading Jeff Bridges – Sleeping Tapes
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Torche – Restarter
While I couldn't help but fall in love with Torche's previous full-length, Harmonicraft, that record did represent a conscious shift toward the band's poppier and more accessible influences. Despite the warm day-glow punk euphoria of that album, the lack of their signature crunchy "bomb string" guitar was noted with some sadness. Their Harmonslaught single from that same year … Continue reading Torche – Restarter
Pyramids – A Northern Meadow
Recently some mainstream folks have been really excited about Deafheaven, a kind of indie/shoegaze-inflected take on black metal that undeniably has its merits. Personally I don't really get the big deal. There have been bands doing interesting and more palatable versions of black metal for years, and they haven't risen to the same level of … Continue reading Pyramids – A Northern Meadow
Siskiyou – Nervous
The music of Siskiyou hit me in an unexpected place a few years ago, and it continues to do so. It's somehow been four years since the last release, and three years since I first picked up their self-titled. Reading the story of Colin Huebert's recent health troubles with sound sensitivity, you might think Nervous would somehow … Continue reading Siskiyou – Nervous
Best of 2014: Top Ten Albums
So, it's the end of 2014. Boy, what a nothing year that was for me. Oh well, onward and downward I suppose. It wasn't all bad, there was a ton of cool music to enjoy, so that's something. I took a while working on this list, and there were a couple of late entries. There are a few … Continue reading Best of 2014: Top Ten Albums
Old Man Gloom – The Ape of God
The winter of Gloom is upon us folks. It is time for a review of the new Old Man Gloom album The Ape of God, I suppose. Oh, did I say album, I meant albums! There are in fact two new Old Man Gloom albums, and wouldn't you know, both of them are named The Ape of … Continue reading Old Man Gloom – The Ape of God
Album of the Year 2014 Longlist
Okay, I know it's only mid-October, but it's been a fairly cool year for music thus far, so I'm going to try and get a head start on a top five/ten albums list for the end of the year. I haven't done one in a while, and I really don't buy as much new music as I … Continue reading Album of the Year 2014 Longlist
Chattanooga
I have been trying, and failing, to write song-based music for a while, more seriously in the past few months. Aside from not having the time, energy or talent to make much of it, I keep falling back on that old Objective Strategy, honour thy mistake as hidden intention. Well, I wouldn't say I honour my mistakes exactly, nor pass … Continue reading Chattanooga
Sunn O))) Endurance Runn O))): Part 12
Now that I'm finally here, it's weird. What am I going to do with myself, now that I don't have to listen to several Sunn O))) records once in a while and write a bunch of inane gibberish about them, or not about them as seems to have been the case recently? How about literally anything else? Which is … Continue reading Sunn O))) Endurance Runn O))): Part 12
Sunn O))) Endurance Runn O))): Part 11
The penultimate episode is here! You know how this works. I write about albums you don't care about, and you don't read it, and it's all just futile anyway. You know what I like about Sunn O))? Nothing. I just pretend to because I'm pretentious. It's all an act. Nobody could like music like this. That's an … Continue reading Sunn O))) Endurance Runn O))): Part 11
