No, this is NOT a test! I, the great incredible starcasticboots is finally reviewing She & Him’s debut album “Volume One”, alert all of your neighbors about my review on this cute, shallow album.
“Volume One” is one of the best sounding albums which also happens to have absolutely nothing going on. Every story told is self-contained in these songs of heartbreak, there’s like no happy songs on here.
“Sentimental Heart” is about crying, ... read more
Y’know ever since I was born people kept telling “When are you going to review ‘The Sunlandic Twins’ by of Montreal? Y’know I don’t have that much more time, son.” Which was particularly interesting because my father doesn’t know about of Montreal, and still has plenty of time left in his life, probably. So who told me that? Was I hallucinating, had I been punk’d? Probably the latter, but still, they always told me, so now I’m doing ... read more
I mean, wow, haha– How do you even talk about one of the best albums you’ve ever heard? Possibly THE best? One so great you buy it physically on CD, then once again just for good measure! “Breakfast with Girls” wasn’t my first introduction to Self, but it was the release that made me love the band and all its works.
The album starts heavy with “The End of it All” then proceeds to fuck you with “Kill the Barflies”, a song about crashing ... read more