Phaseone: If I Tell U — Phaseone’s most recent release, If I Tell U, is the kind of thing you’d expect from Williams Street Records– and that’s a not a bad thing. The sound straddles contemporary trap-hop, and the aesthetic stylings of Nosaj Thing– the kind of thing you’d expect to hear being blasted out [...]
This Is Your Captain Speaking: ARC – All too often, it seems, we as music fans focus on finding the next new thing, that which is going to change or revolutionize a genre or sound. There are those moments, though, when the new and notable comes about not because they’ve done something novel, but because [...]
Talk Talk: Natural Order 1982-1991 – As lovers of music we sometimes go through certain phases in which we only want to listen to a certain kind of song that fits our mood, and calls to us. This past summer, I went through a Talk Talk phase in which I listened to Spirit of Eden and [...]
The Bear and The Sea: Trees Like You — I listened to The Bear and The Sea’s latest album, Trees Like You, on a recommendation from a friend here at ViolentSuccess only to find that this album was inspiringly beautiful. It’s a masterpiece of instrumental electronic music, reminding me of that first time I listened [...]
Joan of Arc: Joan of Arc — The new self titled release from Joan of Arc is all of the bleeding soul, emotional yearning and incongruous simplistic complication that you could ask for in an album. Joan of Arc singer Tim Kinsella has been the only permanent member of Joan of Arc since its inception [...]