Dec 4, 2005
Dismemberment Plan : Memory Machine
Oct 28, 2005
The Decemberists :: Picaresque
Sep 11, 2005
Devendra Banhart :: Rejoicing in the Hands
Sep 7, 2005
R.E.M. : Country Feedback
Aug 17, 2005
LCD Soundsystem : Losing My Edge
Aug 15, 2005
The White Stripes :: Get Behind Me Satan
Aug 10, 2005
Radiohead : How to Disappear Completely
Aug 6, 2005
Elvis Costello : Watching the Detectives
Jul 30, 2005
TV On the Radio :: Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
I remember my first radio. My grandparents bought it for me. It had one speaker and a bright pink "Record" button the top. The microphone was a really cool feature, and I used that to record myself and others. Sometimes I would try to make a tape from the radio by taping songs. And some channels near the 88.1 end always confused me. They were always talking and had loud commercials. They were actually TV programs being broadcast on the FM dial. Often I heard soap operas, so I never really listened. I still wonder what the point of that was. Anyway, I immediately thought of that when I heard about this band. And in some ways it does sound like the dial is caught between a few different stations at once, picking up post-punk/art-rock guitar lines, vintage drum machines, and doo-wop vocals mixed together. But it works. I really love the song "Staring at the Sun." I think that the sounds created here are a lot different than what is typically in my record collection. Being unexpected can be very good at times.