[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
Big Black is certified anti-rock, and their 1987 root canal of a post-hardcore album, Songs About Fucking, is a direct, no-holds-barred, blunt object assault on the senses…that is, if the title didn’t give that away for you already.
When [...]
Antony & The Johnsons
Another World EP on F10
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Label: Secretly Canadian
F10 Rating:
With their newest EP Antony & the Johnsons strike a slightly more somber chord than they have in the past. Though that may be somewhat similar to claiming that one can of paint is a slightly grayer shade of gray. On [...]
[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
If The Pop Group were a brand name, they would be sued immediately for false advertising. In fact, the only way “pop” should ever be associated with this band is when you say their name - they are [...]
Of Montreal
Skeletal Lamping on f10
Release Date: 10/21/08
Label: Polyvinyl
F10 Rating:
Alright, I suppose this review deserves a disclaimer - I am probably the only person on the planet that did not like Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?. I wasn’t just casually not connected to it - I straight up didn’t like it. It was like [...]
Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker
Fantasma Parastasie on f10
Release Date: 10/14/08
Label: Alien8 Recordings
F10 Rating:
The combination of two innovative musicians like Baker and Hecker is potentially a devastating aural experience. Deluges of distortion and powerful electronics washes saturate this EP, the two artists first venture together and Hecker’s first collaborative album. For two artists who have [...]
[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
Every day I drive home from work, I reach a particular fork in the road with a large, run-down house whose owner can frequently be seen walking around naked through the window. At the house’s top floor, facing [...]
[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
It’s fairly easy to make a list of the most highly-regarded psychedelic albums of all time - throw in names like Hendrix, the Doors, the Beatles, and Pink Floyd, and you quickly begin to see a robust [...]
Catfish Haven are one of those unusual occurrences in music where you get exactly what you expect. One look at Devastator’s cover depiction of silhouetted legs in a risqué position and you’ve got a pretty good idea what you are in for. Southern rock inspired bar rock, a good infusion of sexuality, and enough reverb [...]
Dungen appear to be a band in transition. Changing from the more auteur driven set-up of previous releases where frontman Gustav Ejstes was Dungen, a one man band in the studio, and bringing along some touring musicians for short stints in between recording sessions. Now Dungen has been reconfigured, 4 was recorded by a full [...]
The third album from the duo (and rotating cast of instrumentalists) known as Brightblack Morning Light is their most accomplished yet. The dulcet tones that comprise their prevailing sound have never been as good as on Motion to Rejoin.
The album title indicates something of a return, but to what is unclear. The duo have not [...]
