Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2004–2012
308 posts, November 2004 to January 2012
2006, Equal Vision Records Lover, the Lord Has Left Us opens with a cacophony of mostly familiar instruments and sounds, and, in doing so, sets the pace for the album -- using familiar instruments, The Sound of Animals Fighting manages to…
2006, Equal Vision Records YouInSeries, part of the growing Las Vegas music scene, make their debut with Outside We Are Fine , a strikingly powerful album that manages to somehow capture the band's energy with a surprising precision. The…
2006, Astralwerks In Colour , the sophomore album from Swedish indie popsters, The Concretes, opens to light pounding of a piano and a female vocalist singing with a certain soothing delicacy that few in the history of music have captured…
Barsuk, 2006 Drowaton , the latest release (their third, in fact) from indie pop favorites, Starlight Mints, opens with "Pumpkin," a head-bopping tune that sets a very clear stage for the course of the album, which, from its very outset,…
Warner Bros., 2006 Widely revered three-piece The Flaming Lips brings At War With the Mystics to the table nearly four years after the release of the critically acclaimed Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots , expounding on the…
Few things in life are more ubiquitous than the institution of music; indeed, not only is music present in our natural surroundings (and no, I'm not speaking of radio waves constantly passing through our bodies, though, undoubtedly, it is…
What's your biggest influence in writing music? In general, The Beatles have had the biggest influence, but as far as this album goes... I just thought of this--there?s something that happened fairly recently that could?ve had an influence…
Who are your major musical influences? Warren: Well, I have to say pavement. not because they had a defining impact on my musical taste but because SM is our 'friend' on myspace and without him the whole thing would collapse like a pack of…