Greg Walker
It is a beautiful record that could soundtrack a lazy Sunday morning, or that takes on the life of the book you might read on the couch on your coveted day off, with a deeper listen.
1y
It’s a deep and beautiful album, that inspires, joins us in our struggle with grief, and shares one person’s couple year struggle from winter to springtime.
1y
It is an intimate record in many ways, but something that you could throw on and get carried away by the grand compositions on many of the songs.
1y
Like many of Oberst and Bright Eyes’ other albums, this album digs its heals deep in the dirt and plays tug of war with your heart. Another great album.
1y
The music has an “indie” sensibility, something like Stereolab at the turn of the century, and all twelve of the tracks on the album are bangers.
1y
They seem more like a lean and fierce dog than a “fat dog,” but that’s the sensibility that permeates the album: that our more bestial traits, including any of the seven deadly sins, like “sloth,” are just par for the course.
1y
It’s an emotionally hefty album, and a quirky sonic masterpiece, with alternately beautiful and angular guitars and versatile vocal performances.
1y
It’s a dynamic record, which ultimately chooses the faithfulness and familiarity of love over the addictive highs of flings, the crashed cars and the desperate doubts of desires, showing a band maturing, both musically and emotionally.
1y
A killer album from a band whose name I’d heard for many years, but finally got to sample. It was a satisfying charcuterie of rock.
1y
This album is a different animal altogether, utilizing Chrystabel more as a ghostly instrument than a well-trained vocalist, repeating and overlapping important phrases throughout. It’s not the best produced (or best written) music out there, but it creates another fantastic world that is satisfying to inhabit, if only for a short time.
1y
It’s an album of adventurous songs and interesting poetry that aims to engage the listener on every level, from the visceral to the cerebral, from latent to ecstatic.
1y
Dr. Dog continue to be a band that brings the best of yesteryear into the melting pot of the present day.
1y
They’re starting in a good place, with this album of diverse post-rock tracks with a heart.
1y
Cale is a lifelong artist. His compassion and righteous indignation and unique artistry drips from each track. It is an hour long offering, but there is a good deal of variety from track to track.
1y
They will all go off to their respective projects and countries, but we are lucky to have down on record their alternately raucous and assuaging post-rock jazz music. This is an album that I think many will come back to, time and again.
1y
Tor those who have been along for the whole ride, this is cinematic gold, musically and lyrically. It’s a perfect sign of what both a committed songwriter and committed fan base can experience cathartically, and hopefully will lead to real healing and really great art in Bazan’s impressive wake.
2y
Aftab’s music has the benefit of sounding both personal and universal, political and pastoral.
2y
Rossiter dregs up his past as if he’s talking to a therapist, turns a good phrase as if he’s a famous poet, and offers both hope and relatability, to help his listeners dig into their own conflicted histories, and find forgiveness for the shame, light for the darkness, and beauty for ashes, with a bit of humor, a good helping of heaviness, and a whole lot of pathos.
2y
They are band committed to the internal world made external, bringing our dream world to life, through their instruments adeptly played and songs wonderfully composed. It is an atmospheric record and creates an atmosphere of hope that’s not devoid of life’s realism.
2y
