Five Reasons Why Slim Century is a Good Record 1. The Canoes, the band behind Slim Century, are powered by a bunch of cool dudes who like to play good music, and to the best of my knowledge, they suffer no delusions of grandeur and have never been diagnosed with RSS (Rockstar Syndrome). 2. It’s […]
“Like her second CD, When the Pawn … , the full title of which, at 90 words, appeared, to her pride, in the Guinness Book of World Records, this album’s title is a sort of proverb: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser / Than the Driver of the Screw / And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More / Than Ropes Will Ever Do. For […]
I can usually tell that I’m going to like or not like an album within ten or fifteen seconds. While some make out music likability to an exact science, my sensibility has no pretense like this. Either I like it or I don’t. And it was the test of this theory that inspired me to […]
“Don’t put a band together with musicians who are good enough to imitate anyone well.” –Courtney Taylor-Taylor¹ I didn’t know The Dandy Warhols had a new album coming out until the Monday before its Tuesday release. Suddenly there it was; lingering in my peripheral vision, coaxing me out of a lack of cognition. And This […]
The new self-titled album from Hums + Haws (2012, 1980 Records) plays like a sonic embrace of all things sun-bleached and overlooked. Matt Kordonowy, sole member and polyinstrumentalist of H+H, deftly guides us through his intimate Museum of Forgotten Things and he carefully tows the line of nostalgia without slipping into contrivance. Kordonowy engineered the […]
