Showing posts with label pitchfork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pitchfork. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Pitchfork Gives High Marks To The Reissue of Jawbreaker's Bivouac!

"Bivouac has always held a special place for me. It's their darkest collection, a sprawling, shaggy-dog set that found them transitioning from the cleaner, calmer Unfun to something grittier, wilder, and smarter. Bivouac was a ragged call to arms, 24 Hour Revenge Therapy an ambitious offering within that newer space they'd created." Read the complete review on Pitchfork.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Pitchfork Loves Wooden Wand's Latest "Blood Oaths of the New Blues!"

"Like the finest work of Richard Buckner or Phosphorescent, Blood Oaths of the New Blues recasts songs that could have come from country music or the blues or Bob Dylan in an intricate Americana gloaming. At last, Toth treats the words and the arrangements with the same ingenuity and devotion, arriving at the most accessible and narcotic record of his career." Read the complete review on Pitchfork!

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Torres' "Honey" Best New Track On Pitchfork!

"The song, from her upcoming self-titled record, starts moonlit and slow, building gradually and promising a pulse-quickening Big Payoff that never quite arrives. All of the song's tightly compressed fireworks occur, instead, within Scott's huge, trembling, raw, voice, and the abject emotional intensity with which she wields it." Listen now on Pitchfork.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Pitchfork Premieres Wooden Wand's New Single "Southern Colorado Song"

"Following last year's double-dip set of releases, Death Seat and Briarwood, James Jackson Toth's Wooden Wand project returns on January 8, 2013 (a day before in Europe) with a new album, Blood Oaths of the New Blues." Listen now on Pitchfork!

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

The Electronic Anthology Project Reviewed On Pitchfork!

"A number of the tracks on Electronic Anthology Project come from the loud/quiet back-and-forth convention that helped Dinosaur draw the map for 1990s alt rock: calm, percolating verses that offer a foil for soaring, melodic choruses. "Pond Song" off 1988's Bug reinterprets that dynamic for one of the collection's most entertaining tracks, as Mascis sings, with sunny, wide-eyed optimism, "Pain is a wave, come on let's ride it."" Read on at Pitchfork.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Pitchfork Premieres Electronic Anthology Project's Cover Of Dinosaur Jr.'s"Tarpit"

"Mascis has teamed up with Built to Spill bassist Brett Nelson's Electronic Anthology Projectto remake nine Dinosaur Jr. songs as full-blown synth-pop. "Tarpit" from 1987's You're Living All Over Me is the first taste. The album will be released in a limited-edition run of 500 purple vinyl records, out April 21 for Record Store Day. A digital, CD, and standard vinyl release will follow." Listen to "Tarpit" now on Pitchfork.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Pitchfork Reviews Elysian Fields' Latest "Last Night on Earth"

"For 15 years, Brooklyn's Elysian Fields have been reliable purveyors of dream-pop and alt-rock noir. Singer Jennifer Charles exudes a forbidding cocktail-dress cool; her slick presentation conceals uneasy psychological themes. Think Mazzy Star on a serious Bad Seeds binge. The band has collaborated with many leading lights of the American pop avant-garde-- Marc Ribot, John Lurie, John Zorn, and Mike Patton-- while guitarist Oren Bloedow has backed up demanding traditionalists like Dr. John and Lizz Wright." Head on over to Pitchfork to read the complete review of Elysian Fields' Last Night on Earth.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Pitchfork / Kill Screen goes in depth on the collaboration between Jim Guthrie and Superbrothers on Sword & Sworcery!


"A journey into the study of pixel art and a failed attempt at animation led to mixtape swaps with music legend Jim Guthrie and booze-fueled powwows with Capybara Games. Adams helms the Superbrothers project with musical input from Guthrie and development from Capybara. They may ultimately have begun one of the most articulate ruminations on games in the past decade." Read the rest at Pitchfork!