Category: Reviews

This southern Florida quintet feels like it’s aiming to create energetic and densely layered pop-punk but instead ends up churning out that familiar brand…

Poppy, poppy, poppy, with all the high-in-the-mix vocals, jangly guitar hooks and bouncing bass lines to prove it. While tracks like “Raised By Gays”…

There’s not much here in terms of volume — three mostly instrumental songs and a pair of 40-odd second interludes — but this unassuming…

Genres merrily collide on this eclectic and carefully crafted 11-song disc, which marks the 100th release for Bloomington’s Jagjaguwar label. Melancholy jaunts bleed into…

This spare, bleak record defines itself not through somber acoustic ruminations or Alex Botten’s breathy whisper of a voice but in how those elements…

  Thirteen minutes, apparently, is all these guys need to envelope you. This bite-size, three-song offering packs as much of an emotional punch as…

The Knoxville quintet follows up 2002’s All Things Small Produce A Spark with a handful of studio-nurtured ditties that pop-pop-pop! In case your mood’s…

Boilerplate pop-punk from a trio that hits the right poses but sometimes ambles half-hearted through the proceedings. Tracks occasionally hint at a bluesy undercurrent…

Numbers steals the show on this rumbling little two-song battle of the bands, where the weapons of choice appear to be tinny dance rhythms,…

Yes, the sophomore effort from this one-man studio project quickly defines itself with an enveloping succession of fragile, synth-driven pop soundscapes. But it’s not…