Album Reviews

Buxton – Nothing Here Seems Strange [Album Review]

January 9, 2012

I’m really looking forward to music in 2012. We’ve got releases coming out from Lucero, Damien Jurado, The Shins, Delta Spirit and a bunch more. But in all the excitement, let’s not overlook the up and comers in 2012. One such band is a five-piece folk-rock band from Houston that goes by the name Buxton. [...]

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The Milk Carton Kids’ Prologue. How did I overlook them this year? [Free Album]

December 1, 2011

There were big chunks of the year where I had my head up my ass. Blessed with a toddler and infant at home and busy managing a large workforce for the day job, early 2011 piled on some busy days and sleepless nights. Here at the end of 2011 (just a couple months ago), I [...]

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Caveman – CoCo Beware [Album Review]

November 23, 2011

Anybody ever take a Xanax? I have on a couple of occasions, mostly flights. It kind of just puts you in a nice mellow mood and nothing really seems to bother you. I swear that you could saw off my thumb while someone told me I had genital herpes and I would still sit their [...]

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Carter Tanton – Freeclouds (album review)

November 22, 2011

Tulsa’s full-length debut was one of my most anticipated albums of 2009. Their EP, I Was Submerged, was on repeat for 2007 and 2008. I saw them at SxSW, at Schubas for Tomorrow Never Knows and had all but scheduled Tulsa in for a HearYa session. And then they were gone; vanished into thin air [...]

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Alabama Shakes – Debut EP

November 21, 2011

Busting out of Muscle Shoals, the Alabama Shakes are a 4-piece that are simply amazing. Fronted by Brittany Howard, they knock it out of the park on their debut EP. Part Rolling Stones, part Sharon Jones and dripping with influences from Aretha to Otis, this is one of the most impressive debut EPs I have [...]

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Brown Bird – Salt for Salt [Album Review]

November 15, 2011

Talk about serendipitous. I had never heard of Brown Bird prior to TDBG’s post on the decline of the word “soul.” One of our readers dropped a link in to a video by Brown Bird that piqued my interest. The very next day The Low Anthem made mention of them on their Facebook page which [...]

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A.A. Bondy – Believers [Album Review + Chicago Ticket Giveaway for Tonight]

November 8, 2011

Belivers, A.A. Bondy’s latest album, has been impossible for me to review. I’ll first point out that I am in love with the album, but it’s different from every album I’ve listened to this year. It has a few songs that rise above others, like “Surfer King” and “Rte. 28/Believers,” but they serve as crests [...]

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Company – Holy City [Album Review]

November 2, 2011

I don’t even know how Holy City ended up on my iPod. And for that matter, I don’t know why I chose to listen to a band that I never heard of. I think I must have scrolled too far past Christina Aguilera. Company come to us from South Carolina and are pretty damn good. [...]

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WATERS – Out In The Light [Album Review]

October 31, 2011

WATERS is the band that emerged after Port O’Brien dissolved. Founding POB front man Van Pierszalowski fled the States for Oslo, Norway after the breakup before continuing his travels to Alaska where he’d spent time working with his father, a commercial fisherman. Then off to his hometown in Northern California, over to Brooklyn, then back [...]

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Deer Tick – Divine Providence [Album Review]

October 27, 2011

I was talking about Deer Tick to some guys that had never heard of them before. My description was one of an old time rock and roll band who are about drinking canned beer, smoking reds and wearing their hearts on their sleeves. In any Deer Tick album, you’re going to have a few moments [...]

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