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Undoubtedly, it was worth the long wait. With their fifth full-length album, this German heavy metal-turned-experimental indie band perfect the superb attention to detail and rhythmic awareness they demonstrated on 1998’s Shrink. The new album is a stunning assembly of illusive beats, eerie electronic noises and subtle, meandering melodies. As such, the album sounds like a crossbreed of glitchy, danceable techno, catchy pop-rock and minimalist jazz—all with a sustained art-house aloofness...
There’s a lot of pressure to give Out Hud’s first full-length effort S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. a flattering review. With several obscure vinyl releases over the past years, the band has built a cult following of indie hipsters and has accrued plenty of critical hype...
Lif’s long-awaited full-length debut I Phantom hit stores in 2002 to substantial critical acclaim (including in The Crimson). He says he worried that the album, which traces a central character’s struggle for success and happiness amidst the banality of modern life, was “too heady” for a listening public focused on catchy singles and fly but air-headed rhymes...
...maple leaves can be proud to call her own is finally crossing the border. Stylish Hot Hot Heat create and innovate masterfully while sporting skintight pants and boyish smiles. Dress finesse aside, the four lanky British Columbians produce great music all over Make Up The Breakdown, their first full-length album with major label Sub Pop, best known as the birthplace of Nirvana. Mixing rhythmic drive with some of the catchiest hooks around, Hot Hot Heat belt out a unique brand of rock so irresistibly fun and spastic that bodies demand to twist and jive along with it. This...
Matmos kicked off the first of three workshops, attended by a handful of Harvard students, with a lecture on the history of musique concrete, the avant-garde movement that used spliced tape loops to restructure found sounds into full-length compositions. “I wanted some way to respond to the class with sound, but you can only go so far without it becoming a bit gimmicky,” Daniel said. The talk was bolstered by listening to the duo’s favorite recordings, which ranged from former Cabaret Voltaire member Chris Watson’s work...