It’s always odd to revisit what you’ve reviewed over the course of a year. Sometimes, much can change – as after subsequent listenings, you realize that record you thought was pretty decent just blows (see The Killers’ Sam’s Town) or you come to love an album that you’d previously dismissed as mediocre (see “Into the […]
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Alive in the Hotspell
Charmparticles’ Alive in the Hot Spell hit my inbox on the day of Seattle’s largest temperature surge in years. It was a sweltering 89 degrees – inside my house. The last thing I wanted to do was stick another disc in the changer for fear of adding more fuel to the inferno (anything electric generates […]
Top 50 Northwest Releases of 2004: the Imaginary Readers' Poll Results {30-21}
#30 Robb Benson — The Tree Mind (Roam Records) {official website} * {buy it} * {tig review} #29 Viva Voce — Heat Can Melt Your Brain (Minty Fresh) {official website} * {buy it} #28 Pleasurecraft — Lost Patterns (Pleasurecraft Music) {official website} * {buy it} * {tig review} #27 […]
Sit Down For Staying
Nearly a decade ago, while living in Eugene, Oregon, a band came onto my radar that blew me away. They were nothing like all the gritty punk bands that also called that town home, nor the bouncy, flash-in-the-pan, horn-infusion acts like Cherry Poppin' Daddies. This band was dark, moody, their sound awash in reverberating beauty. […]