Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2004–2012
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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…
Self-released, 2004 Until the Next Red Light , Ohio's This is Exploding's first full-length release, is bursting at the seams with the energy often associated with artists and the work they lovingly pain over, and with good reason. From…
From the word "go," The Life Pursuit , latest release from famed Scottish group, Belle and Sebastian, is a pop explosion. Replete with the expected qualities -- jangly guitars, heartfelt lyrics, and a solid rhythm -- The Life Pursuit , the…
Barsuk, 2006 Makers is Seattle-based Rocky Votolato's latest album, and, as one would expect, supposing foreknowledge of the man's catalog, is remarkably mellow and an overall easy -- yet no less important or enlightening -- listening…
Merge, 2005 Birds Make Good Neighbors , the latest -- and second -- full-length from the four-piece (one married duo, Kelly Crisp and Ivan Howard, and two more, Lee Waters and Wes Phillips) The Rosebuds, is an entrancing pop album in a…
Self-released, 2005 The latest release from Stars of Track and Field, You came here for sunset last year , is a five track EP that sounds as musically mature as one could imagine; composed of outstanding musical talent and intuition, this…
I & Ear, 2005 Miguel Mendez, a Long Beach, California native, is a strange sort of newcomer to music -- a once-physics major at UC Berkeley, Mendez exercises his songwriting ability in a unique style that he -- for better or worse -- can…
Self-Released, 2005 Jon Crocker's Songs About Trains and Other Things is a heartfelt collection of songs consisting primarily of acoustic guitar, Crocker's vocals, and the occasional rhythm instrument and harmonica. On the surface, the…