"Bottled In Cork" is one of the best tracks on Ted Leo and The Pharmacists phenomenal new album The Brutalist Bricks. It ties together the potent combination of solid hooks and sincere lyrics to create a sound that can really best be classified as "Classic Ted Leo." In my review of The Brutalist Bricks earlier this year, I lauded the band on its return to form and the directness that made previous so infectious and enjoyable. Now, Ted Leo, et al. has released a stellar and hilarious video mocking the Green Day American Idiot...
8.23.2010
8.21.2010
Mystery Jets - Serotonin
Mystery Jets may still be trying to revisit the success of 2006's Making Dens by writing well-hooked pop songs, but on Serotonin they've created what feels like two EPs thrown together in some sort of unholy sandwich. Every song on the record has a phenomenal electro-synth-punk hook, but many of these tracks feel like they are alive because of a pacemaker, rather than a real, beating, surging heart. And the lyrical composition...
8.15.2010
Video Review: Yeasayer's "Madder Red"
First off, Kristen Bell was great in Veronica Mars, a show that was killed by the same studio bullshit that kills all great television. After that, she was funny in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but pretty weak in Heroes (not her fault necessarily) and then she was in that shitty reworking of Three Coins in the Fountain. Now, though she stars in a primarily non-speaking role in Yeasayer's incredible video for the song "Madder...
8.08.2010
Janelle Monae - Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase)
When I wrote my review of the phenomenal, incomparable new Janelle Monae album The ArchAndroid, I was sure to note that I wasn't familiar with the original EP that kicks off Monae's Metropolis world and mythos. One excitingly fortuitous trip to the record store later, and I'm aware and ready to talk about the way this whole project begins and how the first suite fits together with the subsequent two. On Metropolis: Suite...
8.05.2010
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
For The Suburbs Arcade Fire has managed to sneak the album title into the lyrics of almost every song, but it's not just a gimmick. The band manages to capture a broad scope of lamentations about life outside the city, what it means, and how living in sprawl effects the directions we take in growing up. Throughout the incredibly even-keel and primarily dour album, Win Butler and the band tell stories about moving to...
8.02.2010
My Sick Uncle - (500) Days of Weezy
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We're in an age where quality mashup albums are just as artistically appreciated as something built entirely from scratch. My Sick Uncle has produced just such an achievement. (500) Days of Weezy is a mixed between Lil Wayne's work and the soundtrack for the 2009 film (500) Days of Summer. And the beauty of this newish genre is that any listener can find something that's familiar to cling to while at the same time challenging...
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