I put up the video to "Trust" off this really excellent album a couple of weeks ago, so this time around, I'm sharing one of the more rocking songs on the CD on my music page. It's really for Dale, because I know he'll go for anything that sounds like My Bloody Valentine, but the rest of you are welcome to it as well. (I still haven't decided how I feel about the long feedbacky breakdown...w...
I have no empirical evidence from Pitchfork or similar review sites, but it struck me that 7.9 seems to me the best rating for an album. Sitting between the mediocrity of the 7s and the greatness of the 8s, and well below the hyperbole of the 9s, 7.9 feels like a special rating. The kind that a reviewer gives to an album that is clearly better than the ordinary (otherwise it might get a 7.5 o...
I put up the video to "Trust" off this really excellent album a couple of weeks ago, so this time around, I'm sharing one of the more rocking songs on the CD on my music page. It's really for Dale, because I know he'll go for anything that sounds like My Bloody Valentine, but the rest of you are welcome to it as well. (I still haven't decided how I feel about the long feedbacky breakdown...w...
I've been sort of mesmerized lately by Gravenhurst's new album The Western Lands. The record's not out until September, but meanwhile, here's a video for the single, "Trust." God-damned beautiful, that's what I say.
I have some interesting things to say but not the energy to say them.Saw Eragon tonight. Never read the book but ZOMG Jeremy Irons! Rawr, baby. That part where he kicked Eragon's ass, that part was hotter than a pancake griddle in Texas in July. And now I am watching a ghost movie over at Public Domain Movies.Has anyone heard of Gravenhurst?
I have no empirical evidence from Pitchfork or similar review sites, but it struck me that 7.9 seems to me the best rating for an album. Sitting between the mediocrity of the 7s and the greatness of the 8s, and well below the hyperbole of the 9s, 7.9 feels like a special rating. The kind that a reviewer gives to an album that is clearly better than the ordinary (otherwise it might get a 7.5 o...