Posted in Indie, Pop/Singers on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bonnie Prince Billy EP
Bonnie Prince Billy
Benoit Pioulard- Fir
Similar to precis, Pioulard continues his streak of ridiculously haunting songs
Benoit Pioulard- Fir
The Lucky Souls- The Great Unwanted
Definitive guilty pleasure, recommended if you liked the pipettes from last year, au revoir simone from this year. The Lucky Souls trump both in songwriting and melody. FUUCK me [...]
Posted in Indie on April 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Pissed Jeans- Hope for Men [SubPop 2007]
Following on the heels of their monumental Don’t Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear 7”, Pissed Jeans drop album number 2 and their Sub Pop debut: Hope for Men (we like to think of it in the “mankind” sense). For those who found a glimmer of the stuff on [...]
Posted in Indie, Psych, avant-garde on April 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pirate Ship Quintet
There are certain similarities between Yndi Halda and The Pirate Ship Quintet, it must be said. Both make beautiful music, undoubtedly. Guitars and strings play an integral part in the music of both acts, but orchestral instrumentation takes much more of a central role in TPSQ’s songs, with brass and piano often rising [...]
