Posts by Ryan
Alvvays: Alvvays
*+-“This record sounds like it was playing in another room and you were listening to it by pressing a coffee mug up to the wall.”
Bear In Heaven: Time Is Over One Day Old
*+-“‘Time Is Over One Day Old’ is the product of a band experimenting with grandiose ideas and largely succeeding.”
Anand Wilder & Max Kardon: Break Line The Musical
*+-“Ultimately Walker and Kardon remind us what the creators of ‘South Park’ observed: that just because ‘The Simpsons’ did it first doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing again.
Vacationer: Relief
*+-“‘Relief’ is a pleasant album, full of quirky beats and lush tropical arrangements, but it feels fabricated and mundane.”
Timber Timbre: Hot Dreams
*+-“‘Hot Dreams’, the fifth album by Timber Timbre, is more of the same atmospheric pop found on their previous records.”
The Hold Steady: Teeth Dreams
*+-“‘Teeth Dreams’ may not be as immediately accessible as 2006’s ‘Boys and Girls in America’, but it is a welcome return to the beer-soaked, smoke-choked bar rooms The Hold Steady has called home since their inception.”
Ned Collette & Wirewalker: Networking In Purgatory
*+-“‘Networking In Purgatory’ is an album that doesn’t know if it wants to be Bob Dylan or Daft Punk before they collaborated with Pharrell’s oversized hat.”
Pixies: Indie Cindy
*+-“It seems to me that you either like Pixies or you don’t; this record won’t do anything to sway your pre-established expectations.”
Manchester Orchestra: Cope
*+-“Despite claims that the band had forged a new path, ‘Cope’ sounds like every other Manchester Orchestra record.”
The War On Drugs: Lost In The Dream
*+-“‘Lost In The Dream’ is a masterpiece of introspective art.
