By Luke Dailey For years after Burial exploded into the musical consciousness with his 2006 self-titled debut, the artist himself was almost as worthy of discussion as the music. That album and its follow-up, 2007’s masterful Untrue, are landmark, peerless works of post-dub, post-garage, dark ambient music—shuffling beats, unsteady rhythms, ghostly pitch-shifted vocals, cobweb textured atmospheric prods [...]
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of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks
By Luke Dailey Kevin Barnes, the driving creative force behind of Montreal, debuted the band in 1997. Fifteen years and eleven albums later, he’s not only still going strong—he’s continually evolving, shifting, and redefining the band’s sound. 2007’s Oh Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? marked a late-career high water mark for the act: fueled by a [...]
Mesmerized by Ceremonials
By Bianca Zanella ’15 The newest release from musical stunner, Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine, is utterly mesmerizing. Ceremonials is confessional genius with a quality so intimate, at times it is frightening how inspiring and influential the music seems after listening to only a portion of the entire 1.4 hours. After her previous [...]
Old Ground, New Growth
By Luke Dailey Blink-182 – Neighborhoods Yeah, seriously. Blink’s announcement that they were reforming and working on new album a couple years back was a bizarre piece of news for folks who passed their adolescence jamming to ‘What’s My Age Again’ and ‘Dammit’. The impulse not that they’ve finally finished the damn things is, more [...]
The Master of Dreams
By Luke Dailey Tycho – Coastal Break Throw out the word ‘dreamlike’ these days and you’re pretty much asking for the inevitable “Haha Inception” joke. But Tycho aka San Fran based Scott Hansen’s music is dreamlike, in all the senses of the world. It’s richly textured, unpredictable, totally immersive, and swings between moments of gripping [...]
Remember Accordions
By Luke Dailey Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal “While they used to be mainly an acoustic band,” reads the Icelandic six-piece-band’s bio, “Of Monster and Men has taken their sound to a different level with the addition of bass, drums, piano and the accordion.” Which sums it up—strip away all this [...]
Music Review-The New Staind Album
Old Power Revived By Lauren Piechota The band Staind has seen quite a bit of success over the years. When they came out with their first album, Tormented, in 1996, it only sold about 4,000 copies in the United States. Since then, they have gained popularity in their hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts as well as [...]
Cheap and Easy Festivals: A Summer Guide
In planning summer endeavors, it is easy to have lofty vacation goals. Every spring, when promoters and artists alike announce the dates and locations of their summer music plans, I end up promising myself far too much. For those of us who attempt to stay in the area over summer, I hope this guide will [...]
Summer Listening Guide
The best music is often seasonal. Sigur Ros is consistently great, but there’s nothing quite like throwing on Agaetis Byrjun while you’re gazing out at a snowy landscape. And Dr.Dre’s The Chronic never sounds as good as when it’s pouring out of a car around mid-April, cruising around town with the windows down. Hell, why [...]
Gorillaz, The Fall – An album that hardly loses its footing
It shouldn’t be surprising that Gorillaz followed up their most poppy album to date with what is arguably their most experimental. After all, the mastermind behind the band, Damon Albarn, has done everything from straight hip hop to modern operas, so an album composed almost entirely on his iPad practically seems like a natural step [...]
