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...fill up the rest of the album. Through meticulously recorded and assembled sounds and synthetic beats, Bibio lands hits in an incredibly diverse array of styles. The title track is classic 70s Brazilian-sounding clap-along gold—the kind of song that you wish would follow you around all day. “Jealous of Roses,” the song that follows, runs through a similar vein, featuring falsetto funk vocals and an addictively choppy beat that is perfect for your “Shaft” moments. Also prominent on the album are textured Dabrye...
...read Kanye West’s blog for any reason beyond pure entertainment or comedy, then you may have heard of Blind Man’s Colour. If you wait around for a couple more years, the band will be a household name amongst hipsters and beachgoers alike. The band—hailing from St. Petersburg, Florida and led by Kyle Wyss and Orhan Chettri—released their debut LP this summer after six months of steady hype brought on by Kanye and others blogging about their music. “Season Dreaming” is the product...
...playfulness of the characters, who speak in slangy “Gliglish” and meet in the self-proclaimed “cemetery of language.” Oliveira’s lover La Maga enters like a light breeze: her intuitive connections to the things around her serve as a foil for the often laughably cerebral shoptalk of the others. “She picked up a leaf from the edge of the sidewalk and spoke to it for a while, moved it along the palm of her hand, put it rightside up and upside down, stroked...
...Farm”—so satisfying. Dinosaur Jr., the band with a history and even a name that implies a nostalgic relegation to the past, isn’t just making music again. This band is making music as good as its best. The expectations around every Dinosaur Jr. album are, happily the same as ever: variations on the same things at which the band has always excelled. Mascis’ voice still quakes, perhaps more age-appropriately. Murph’s drums still explode with cymbal-work. Barlow’s bass still fills out each song...
...vistas that feel strangely geometrical given the organic nature of the subjects. At first glance, “Fields and Diagonals, Umbria, Italy” simply looks like blocks and stripes of rich vibrant colors. Only upon closer examination do the rolling fields of Italy reveal themselves. Faces from around the world punctuate the display of scenic terrains, giving the geometric landscapes a human side and situating them within a larger context. An old Cretan woman framed in her yellow doorway stands alone observing a campaign speech. Young boys solemnly look at the camera while apprenticing at a monastery...