Subtle beauty comes in so many forms, and it’s the fine details that reflect the fragile essence of a sound, a string, or the lightness of being within a song. As if to hear the silence of the leaf falling in slow motion from a tree, solo artist and micronic music man Jimmy LaValle spotlights […]
Right from the start, The Damnwells is nothing one would expect out of a bunch of Brooklyn boys who recorded their tunes out of a house and a storage locker. Such low-rent, DIY tactics tend to be the sole property of NYC’s punk and mix-tape specialists. Yet, from the first note of Bastards of the […]
On the verge of their 25th year of mind expansion and musical exploration, The Legendary Pink Dot’s release is probably their most accessible and definitely their most fun album in recent years. The Whispering Wall opens with a brooding keyboard line in “Soft Toy,” as Edward Ka-Spel, The Silverman and company stick to the Dot’s […]
Why are French guys so emotional? And whiney? While I wouldn’t classify Maria Blonde particularly emo, this French trio’s lo-fi LP Hearts Always Bleed comes across as dull, uneventful, and to put it nicely, bland. Sadly, the pretentious confines of emo aren’t even enough to hold this under-produced album up. Hearts Always Bleed is bass […]
