The Compact Dish – 7/17/08
Jambang Connecting (SST 2008) Jambang…. Whoooaaa dudes! You’re totally playing these songs on top of a piano at 4a.m. in my house right now! This may not be a very smart band, but if you need a reason to paint yourself 30 different colors and cross-dress, their record might be it. Occasionally exhilarating and unendingly [...]
The Compact Dish – July 3rd
The New Pornographers Twin Cinema Matador (2005) Canada’s The New Pornographers are regarded as masters of indie-pop. Twin Cinema, their 2005 Matador Records release, is considered by many to be their finest. Here’s why: melody, rock-solid drumming, and enough experimentation to keep things interesting. This is a bright, treble-heavy record, that will have you singing [...]
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Alice Cooper Love it to Death (Straight Records, Warner Brothers 1971) This was the Alice Cooper group’s breakthrough record. The first time that horror imagery and rock n’ roll were mixed up together and presented to the American public en masse. Unlike many of the albums it inspired however, Love it to Death is not [...]
The Compact Dish – 5/8/08
Hot Chip Made In The Dark (DFA/EMI 2008) Hot Chip’s latest, Made In The Dark, is a half and half record: half good, half total riff-raff. The electronic dance-pop group from London has, undoubtedly, a ton of potential, but this is not the record where we will see it fully realized. Going for them, Hot [...]