Cleveland's Cloud Nothings have arrived with Attack on Memory. There was no doubt this album would be my pick for this first month of 2012. It's inevitable that I miss out on a band at Fun Fun Fun fest every year and it seems 2011 was no exception. I had no...
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Looking out my window on this crisp November morning, all the Fall colors have disappeared and left only a few survivors hanging from the naked trees in the neighborhood. Winter is upon us here in Denver, Colorado and those few hangers-on will be gone with the next storm. It’s a transitional time, out with...
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Having just caught Lykke Li‘s set at Fun Fun Fun fest over the weekend, I was among the minority of those who knew what to except at the Ogden Theatre on Friday night. The Swedish pop singer has been making waves across the sea for a couple years now, but nothing on the radio,...
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Gem Club – Breakers (Hardly Art, 2011) Beautiful. Cold. Haunting. Quiet. These are all words that accurately describe the debut full length from Somerville, MA‘s Gem Club. A collection of minimal, piano-driven compositions featuring Christopher Barnes‘ forlorn figures skating across the ice of an abandoned lake. Kristen Drymala thaws her frozen fingers on the...
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Is it the music? Is it these amazing videos she puts together? Is it the 50′s style photoshoots and pouty cigarette smoking lips? Does it really matter? Lizzy Grant aka Lana Del Rey came out of nowhere (because the web has been wiped clean of her previous efforts as Lizzy Grant) and if you...
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Active Child – You Are All I See (Vagrant, 2011) Patrick James Grossi is a harpist, an ex-choirboy and the sole member of Active Child. Introduced to the world via the Curtis Lane EP a little over a year ago, the project was unfairly lumped in with the ‘chillwave’ acts of last summer. While...
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Cults – Cults (In The Name Of, 2011) It seems a little strange to be recommending Cults debut album now. I feel like I have been listening to most of these songs for a over a year now — probably because I have. Go Outside was one of my favorite songs of summer last...
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WU LYF – Go Tell Fire To The Mountain (LYF Recordings, 2011) WU LYF (pronounced Woo Life) are World United! Lucifer Youth Foundation and no, they are not the newest black metal band from Brooklyn. They are a ‘heavy pop’ band from Manchester, England and now you know more than I did when I...
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Yuck – Yuck (Fat Possum, 2011) Yuck are a group of young individuals from all over the world who came together in London. They make fuzzy, reverb soaked 90′s indie rock in the vein of Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus and Mary Chain with some Sebadoh thrown in for good measure. ...
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These are albums that have been on heavy rotation lately but I just haven’t had the time to write about. I still don’t have the time to write about them, so I’m taking the easy way out with a group post. Every once in a while I find a common theme in the...
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Spring is in full effect in Denver today. I am looking out my window at the kids on their bikes as the sun sets over the Rockies. The scene is quite different from the wet gloom that was 4/20. Yesterday was a shitty day overall and even though I had purchased an advance ticket...
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