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Johnny Foreigner - Our Bipolar Friends
❤ angels twenty [review 2008: favourites] I am convinced that there are two types of aging: the graceful type and the kicking-and-screaming type. As I am almost certainly going to be the second… Read full post »
Deerhoof - Numina O
❤ angels twenty [review 2008: favourites] Friend Opportunity , Deerhoof’s biggest breakthrough to date, was a thoroughly idiosyncratic album whose euphoric highs—the galloping thunderstorm of “The Perfect Me,” the adorable chorus of “+81″—outweighed… Read full post »
Blood Red Shoes - It's Getting Boring By The Sea
❤ angels twenty [review 2008: favourites] Read a bunch of reviews for Box of Secrets and you’ll get an idea of Blood Red Shoes’ weaknesses fairly quickly: a tendency to stick too closely… Read full post »
The Kills - Last Day Of Magic
❤ angels twenty [review 2008: favourites] The Kills have always been on the periphery of my musical universe. With the occasional review saying “sounds like PJ Harvey but grungier!” and “way cooler than… Read full post »
Los Campesinos! - Drop It Doe Eyes
❤ angels twenty [review 2008: favourites] I don’t know who decided that 2008 should be the year a few people decide to remount the whole twee-punk thing, but goddammit, I could kiss you.… Read full post »
Be Your Own Pet - Heart Throb
❤ angels twenty [review 2008: favourites] Welcome to Be Your Own Pet, a band that either isn’t old enough to know or else has decided to ignore the fact that people mature significantly… Read full post »
The Ting Tings - Fruit Machine
❤ angels twenty The length of a pop album is a tricky thing to get right. Usually you take two or three irresistable formulas for a song and repeat them over and over… Read full post »
The Dears - Crisis 1 & 2
❤ angels twenty [review 2008: half-measures and quiet victories] Even without knowing what happened to the Dears after Gang of Losers , it wasn’t hard to figure out what Missiles was going to… Read full post »
Marnie Stern - Roads? Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads
❤ angels twenty [review 2008: half-measures and quiet victories] You’ve mastered hammer-ons and used them to make actual songs instead of nightmarish strings of metal solos. You’ve convinced Zach Hill to become your… Read full post »
Land of Talk - It's Okay
❤ angels twenty [review 2008: half-measures and quiet victories] Applause Cheer Boo Hiss , the first Land of Talk release, reminds me of a certain alt-rock radio sound, but it’s not something I… Read full post »
Portishead - Magic Doors
❤ angels twenty [review 2008: half-measures and quiet victories] The last time most of the world had seen Portishead, it was with the backing of a full orchestra at the Roseland Ballroom in… Read full post »
The Long Blondes - Century
❤ angels twenty [review 2008: half-measures and quiet victories] Sophomore albums are always tough, but even more so when they turn out to be your last. That’s what happened to the Long Blondes,… Read full post »
Forest City Lovers - Country Road
❤ angels twenty [review 2008 - half-measures and quiet victories] When I was first introduced to Forest City Lovers a year and a half ago, it was a gorgeous Saturday afternoon in early… Read full post »
Goldfrapp - Little Bird
❤ angels twenty [review 2008: half-measures and quiet victories] The saving grace of Seventh Tree is that it’s not another Supernature . That album felt like a second disc of Black Cherry in… Read full post »
Deerhoof - Chandelier Searchlight
❤ angels twenty A lot of albums eventually come to signify times, places and attitudes in your life—all the more so if you occasionally imagine your life as though it were a movie,… Read full post »
Ladybug Transistor - Oceans In The Hall
❤ angels twenty From the calmer, gentler end of the Elephant Six spectrum is the Ladybug Transistor, purveyor of immaculate, charmingly retro chamber pop and occasional bigger brother to the Essex Green (who… Read full post »
Beulah - If We Can Land A Man On The Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart
❤ angels twenty One-hit-wonder Primitive Radio Gods temporarily took the title for longest pop song title of the 90s with “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money In My Hand,” which provided… Read full post »
Hardy's Jet Band - Sorry Doc
❤ angels twenty Apparently they used to call this “continental pop”—in the pantheon of music genre names, “continental pop” must rank right up there with “indie rock” as a descriptor that may have… Read full post »
Novillero - Hypothesist
❤ angels twenty It can be hard these days to incorporate horns into your rock band without automatically being labelled ska, even if you decide against adding a permanent dancer to the band… Read full post »
Sarah Shannon - Down
❤ angels twenty If you’re ever looking for a fortifying burst of Bacharachian splendor, you could do far worse than the first three tracks of Sarah Shannon’s self-titled debut. The former Velocity Girl… Read full post »
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