Reviews
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Review: Aviary Ghost - Memory is a Hallway
Aviary Ghost Memory is a Hallway Self-released, 2008 Aviary Ghost - “Somewhere Else” | download There are times that self-releasing an album can be the best option for a band, especially given the many instances of hot-air blowing by music…
Review: Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst Conor Oberst Merge Records, 2008 When I first heard Conor Oberst, I was an impressionable 14 year-old in grade nine. Following the recommendation of Bright Eyes by a friend whose musical interests I trusted (“Download 'The…
Review: A Faulty Chromosome — As An Ex-Anorexic's Six Sicks Exit, ...
Released Feb. 19, 2008; self-released. A Faulty Chromosome, previously the subject of a Feb. 19 MusicGeek.org spotlight, is an unruly shoegaze group; while they do pull from a variety of influences — and it's evident, it's not just some…
Review: Palmer's Medic - In a House, Surrounded
Palmer's Medic, an electronic recording project of a certain Seth David-Andrew Hubbard from southern Utah — Cedar City, Utah, to be precise about things — produces young, fresh music vaguely encapsulatable under genre titles of ambient…
Review: Rings - Black Habit
It's hard to classify Rings on first glance: This all-female band incorporates elements of experimental music, the modern pop tradition and Eno-inflected ambient, creating an ultimately unique style of music somewhere between the ranks of…
Music Geek #3: Shoegaze, Famicom-style — The Depreciation Guild offers synthesizers with lush guitar work
In the time since the writing and subsequent posting of my previous column, in which I probed for quality shoegaze, I have been offered a small variety of options by which I might discover more of this music I’ve found myself so enamored…
Antarctica Takes It! - The Penguin League
Antarctica Takes It!, from Santa Cruz, California, is a fairly easy group to figure out -- a true indie pop project, they put their sound up for examination with their first -- and self-released -- album, The Penguin League .
All Out War - Assassins in the House of God
Assassins in the House of God starts hard and ends, well, hard. This metalcore outfit really knows what they're doing with their sound, and it shows in the resulting record. The album is fast, the drums punching and the guitar stabbing…