Category Archives: album reviews

Welsh Weirdness Worth Wildin’ Out To: Cate Le Bon

Good tunes for the trippers: “Cardiff’s Cate Le Bon … sings like Nico over a score that could’ve been produced by Os Mutantes in their prime.” Via A.V. Club.

[Photo stolen from my friend Kyle Dean Reinford.]

Gucci Mane and V-Nasty: A Match Made in … a Continuation School Homeroom?

Wanted to like tolerate this one less than I did. Click on Vanessa to read it.

Words You’ll Never See Again: The Internet Falls Short in Delivering ‘Naked Ladies’

Wanted to like Odd Future’s neo-soul wasteland funk more than I did. Ho hum. Read all about it via the A.V. Club. At least Earl is back. OFWGK†A.

Two Doggs, One Bowl: Snoop and Wiz Get High

In hindsight, might’ve been a tad generous with the grade. Read at the A.V. Club.

Review: Cloud Nothings Reinvent Selves, Return with Exhilarating, Full-Band, Post-Punk Viciousness

Attack on Memory by Cleveland’s Cloud Nothings is the first contender (and admittedly an early one) for the Best Album of 2012. Find out why via SPIN.

Review: Italo Indies A Classic Education Release Roughed-Up Perfection on ‘Blazing’

Cool shit. Read about it. (via SPIN)

New Small Black Mixtape More Killer Than Chiller

These #chillwave bros make power (106) moves on their new mixtape, Moon Killer, which features drop-ins from Das Racist’s Heems, a.k.a. Young Cocoa Butter. Plus, they sample Nas. Read at SPIN; stream and download below.

Raleigh Moncrief = James Blake for P. Bear Pack?

This dude had a heavy hand in making one of the best records of the last decade, Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca, and now he’s trying out his solo man steez. At SPIN.

Jens Lekman Stalks Kirsten Dunst on New EP

Tweeness isn’t for everybody, but Dunst should be charmed. Read at SPIN.

Did Modeselektor Bite Flying Lotus?

Nah, but they definitely paid the homie a little tribute. Everyone knows the men from Monkeytown are always on the move, stylistically, and their brand new LP sounds like it was burped out from the blessed bowels of Low End Theory.