All Rise
This album sounds like what it would be like to be on vacation in a small green bracken-laced village in Southern Europe, on a warm…
You Came Here For Sunset Last Year
To paraphrase a famous song we all love, you float till you learn to swim. Produced by Tony Lash (Elliott Smith, Dandy Warhols) and Jeff…
The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of
I first heard The Purrs' The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of as a podcast of their live appearance in the KEXP performance space. The…
The Voltage Control EP
Tacoma band Mono in VCF's debut release, The Voltage Control EP tumbles out of the jewel case like a cascade of influences, with layers of…
Again & Again & Again
The best moment on this three-song debut EP by Seattle band Speaker Speaker occurs less than a minute into "Again & Again," the pseudo-title track.…
The King
Buy It!{Top Shelf Productions}Remember me? I used to live for music. Remember me? I brought your groceries in. — Leonard Cohen, "First We Take Manhattan"…
Blab! #16
Buy It!{Fantagraphics} It comes out once a year, it's edited by a French dude, and it has featured new work by Mark Ryden and Joe…
AstroPOP! for December 2005
Your monthly imaginary horoscope told in album reviews! December 2005 AstroPOP! is brought to you with musical reviews by Chris Estey. Sagittarius (November 22 -…
Twin Cinema
Twin Cinema is, as it should be, the best New Pornographers record to date. Remember when the first New Pornographers record, Mass Romantic, came out?…
Daylight Basement: Of Fireworks and Fate
"I didn't go through a process of elimination in choosing the songs for Any Kind of Pretty," said Bre Loughlin, the stunning-looking singer/songwriter for the…