Album Review: Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! – “Pardon My French”
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It’s hard not to call Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! simple imitators of A Day To Remember. Since ADTR debuted their trademark pop-punk/metalcore (since dubbed “easycore”) brand of teenage angst, they’ve had the market cornered. (more…)
Album Review: White Prism – “White Prism EP”
Disclaimer: White Prism has no musical affiliation to Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” they are just a band called White Prism. (more…)
Album Review: ADULT. – “The Way Things Fall” LP
There is so much to say about the newest ADULT. album, The Way Things Fall. It’s the duo’s first album since 2007, but the 5th in their discography. It’s the kind of album that you’ll want to tell your friends about, which is why I’m writing about it here, but be sure to include the period: ADULT. (the duo made a psa insisting on that spelling.) (more…)
Album Review: Guided By Voices – “English Little League”
Guided By Voices’, as well as the lo-fi genre in general, had their heyday in the early-to-mid-90s. As the years wore on, things began to sound ragged and tired, and the band broke up. Even more tired since their reformation, GBV is just as prolific as ever, this being their 4th album since their 2011 reunion. (more…)
Album Review: She & Him – “Volume 3″
It’s 2013, and we all have Zooey Deschanel’s game figured out. One can hardly hear the word “quirky” in the media these days without her name appearing somewhere in proximity. In standard demure naivete, she flits across the screen every week as the title character in her sitcom New Girl, polka dot dresses and all, drumming up the wildest fantasies of closet hipsters everywhere who loved “(500) Days Of Summer.” (more…)
Album Review: Radiation City – “Animals in the Median”
Animals In The Median is an intensely varried album from Radiation City. It’s the band’s second album, and it’s absolutely entrancing. Because the album fills me with amazing emotion, I don’t really want to talk about the concrete aspects of it. Furthermore, it’s difficult for me to write objectively about the album. (more…)
Album Review: Daft Punk – “Random Access Memories”
God, “Get Lucky” is a fantastic song. I mean, just, incredible. That perfect airy-funky guitar lick? Pharrell winking at us that he’s up all night to get lucky – or is that up all night to “Get Lucky”, meaning dancing to that incredible song over and over and over? (more…)
Album Review: Grandchildren— “Golden Age”
Releasing their first ever full-length album this May, the Philadelphia born band—Grandchildren—successfully dropped 9 tracks of once-around, easy-album-listening music. (more…)
Album Review: Young Statues – “Age Isn’t Ours”
Young Statues are yet another promising up-and-coming band to emerge from the Philadelphia music scene, which gave us such artists as The Wonder Years and Valencia. From the first listen you can tell their new EP, Age Isn’t Ours, is a product of East Coast pop punk. (more…)
Album Review: Paul Mccartney + Wings – “Wings Over America” Reissue
The legendary 1975 Wings tour, Wings Over The World, lives on through this reissue, more clear and in better quality than it ever has before. This is one of the finest live recordings I’ve ever listened to, and it’s all the better for being one of Sir Paul McCartney and Wings. (more…)