The Microphones – The Glow Pt. 2
When I first heard The Glow Pt. 2, I likened it to Neutral Milk Hotel’s output: moments like Phil Elverum belting out “I took my shirt off in the yard” after […]
Category Archives: 2000s
Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump
Reading reviews of The Sophtware Slump would be a lot easier if you did not have to read sentences like “easily the equal of OK Computer” (The Independent), and even two decades later, […]
3 Album Reviews: Sparklehorse
Sparklehorse – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (1995) – C+ I remember discovering Sparklehorse by word of mouth back in 2009, and I remember falling in love with a few gems within his discography: […]
3 Album Reviews: Jay-Z and Nas in the 2000s
Jay-Z – The Blueprint (2001) – A It really was a blueprint. Not just of things to come but rather because within the album’s 64 minutes, The Blueprint covers a […]
3 Album Reviews: Jay-Z in the Early 2000s
The Black Album (2003) – A- I think I speak for all of us when I say that we were entertained, Jay-Z. I mean, how could you not be? The […]
Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
Wherein Jay-Z’s rapping takes a dark turn for the worst. He does fine on opener “What We Talkin’ About”, but I expect significantly more beat-wise from a combined team of […]
3 Album Reviews: Girls and Guitars (Jay Som, Laura Marling, Grouper)
Jay Som – Everybody Works (2017) – B+ Starts off just fine, with “Lipstick Stains” drifting in and out of focus; washes of acoustic guitar and horns providing ballast to […]
