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The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
Review — November 9, 2006
A few eyebrows were raised on both sides of the divide when Capitol Records decided to sign indomitable indie heroes, The Decemberists. With nothing obviously commercial about their sound, musings varied from wonder to fear that The Decemberists were about to become just another pop-indie band. Most fears, however, were …
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – So Divided
Review — November 13, 2006
In 2005, Texan art-rockers ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead released World's Apart to critical acclaim and commercial failure. The unfortunate victims of a leak that saw the album seep onto the Internet months before its heavily delayed release date. At the time, Conrad Keely openly …
Send More Paramedics – The Awakening
Review — November 16, 2006
The Awakening is the third offering from back-from-the-dead thrashers Send More Paramedics. Coming as a two CD set, the first disk is the same onslaught of thrash-punk that we've come to expect from our anthropophagic friends. The second disk, however, becomes the moody, brooding soundtrack to the coming zombie apocalypse …
Circles – When the Big River Floods
Review — November 28, 2006
When the Big River Floods sounds like Circles recorded it in a basement while drunk. Rough and ragged, the influences that are melted together to form the seven song mini-album slur their way along through confused drum-rhythms, low mix horns and a hell of a lot of rock, country, folk, …
Roddy Woomble – My Secret is My Silence
Review — December 6, 2006
In 2005, following Warnings / Promises, Idlewild finally decided that they were a rock band all along and that the folk edges that had been working their way in since The Remote Part were just a side track to their rock band credentials. The result of this epiphany was …
Up and at Them – Demo
Review — December 11, 2006
Up and at Them are four kids playing hardcore music. No frills, no fashion, no hideous lyrics about suicide or emotions. Just straight-up hardcore; it recalls Sick of it All and Comeback Kid and is delivered with a distinct lack of irony that is strongly welcome in a music world …
