Word: songfulness
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...Stars It has been an incontrovertible fact that Chris Bridges makes good albums and fantastic songs. Commanding a diverse collage of sounds, themes, and flows, his body of work from “Back for the First Time” to “The Red Light District”—not counting “Splash Waterfalls”—ruled airwaves and booties more than any rapper’s catalog in this decade. But with “Release Therapy,” his fifth album in six years, this dominance, like...
...RIAA needs to catch up on their slang.) The Sisters’ lyrics are as playful and unconventional as ever. That’s not to say the album is without missteps. “Paul McCartney,” for example, is a dismal low point. The song tries too hard to be this album’s “Filthy/Gorgeous,” with the band employing a beat similar to the previous hit’s and even giving vocalist Ana Matronic dialogue to moan out, just like last time. But without a catchy melody...
Sparklehorse is weirder than dreams. Best known for his songs wrought with fragile creepiness, laden with nightmarish imagery and whispered ambiguities, Mark Linkous—the man behind the Sparklehorse curtain—can haunt with the best of them. In this sense, Sparklehorse’s latest album, “Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain” is more of the same—and, after a five-year hiatus, discovering more of the same was more than I could’ve asked for.Linkous’s drug problems?...
...exchange for his honorary membership, he decided to compose a new song for the Kroks, called "Screwed on Wrong," a brilliant but devilishly difficult number...
...into the Cantabrigian poetry scene by reading verses from your creative writing class or singing a song. Hosted by Deborah Priestly, gallery-owner and poet...