Posts Tagged ‘Sparklehorse’

Electric President’s self-titled affair was one of my favorite albums of 2006. Sleep Well is the follow up and it is a completely different beast. On their debut, the young Florida duo of Ben Cooper and Alex Kane were mining more upbeat/accessible waters akin to The Postal Service. Sleep Well chooses to follow the more […]

13ghosts are an eclectic band from Birmingham, Alabama that touch on numerous different styles. With two diverse singers and the band’s penchant to genre jump, The Strangest Colored Lights is tough to grasp without numerous listens. Touching on southern rock, country, americana, pop and everything in between, the band carves out a unique niche for […]

Intermingled within the same musical tree that spawned Ticonderoga, Bowerbirds and Bon Iver, Megafaun are a fascinating indie/experimental/folk band from Raleigh, NC. The band’s intriguing debut, Bury The Square, resides in the same vicinity as the recently reviewed Border Radio by Blake/e/e/e. Both bands are mining the same folk territories on their respective debuts. Yet, […]

The dub of the appropriately titled album opener “Holy Dub” opens up Blake/e/e/e’s Border Radio. While it is not necessarily a harbinger of things to come, it does speak to the wide open frontiers that lay ahead of the listener. Border Radio reminds me of a band like Califone and their unique brand of songwriting. […]

Carcrashlander “Carcrashlander” (Parks And Records)

Carcrashlander is the project started by Cory Gray. You might not know that name but if you have an album from a Portland band there is probably a good chance he might be playing somewhere on it. Gray is a session player for acts as diverse as The Decemberists, Grails, Norfolk […]

Scott Reynolds & The Steaming Beast “Adventure Boy” (Suburban Home)

Now if Suburban Home would release something by Dave Smalley next, they would have the ALL trifecta. What the hell am I talking about? Well, that would give the label three projects by all three of ALL’s different lead singers. Of course you have the label […]