Grade B+
White Rabbits? It’s more like wild horses the way these songs gallop over the horizon, kicking up swirls of dust and gaining speed the closer they get. Before they’re even in full view you can fell the ground rumbling. Its not the shaking of an Earth quake, it’s the beating of steady foot stomps. [...]
The Whole Story: White Rabbits FORT NIGHTLY
The Whole Story: Chris Garneau – MUSIC FOR TOURISTS
Grade B-
Everything on Music for Tourists comes easily. Chris Garnaeu seems all but allergic to exertion and he plays his way through the entire album with as little effort as he can muster while still forcing the words out. Not to be confused with weakness or frailty, its more a matter of being overly gifted. [...]
The Whole Story: Art Brut – IT’S A BIT COMPLICATED
Art Brut – It’s a Bit Complicated
Grade B
When Art Brut stepped out of the pub and into the public consciousness
with their first album Bang Bang Rock and Roll they sounded like a
group surprised that they were actually being allowed to make music.
Right down to their name, which comes from French painter Jean
Debuffet’s study of so [...]
The Whole Story: Leyode – FASCINATING TININESS
Grade B-
Blues music finds its color in the space between where you desire to
be and where you are in reality. Rarely do these two positions overlap
and its from the dissonance experienced when trying to push their
trajectories towards the same path that many an artist has found this
compelling hue. Trapped in bondage and forced into servitude, [...]
