Reviews
Decade’s best 30 albums #23
By Keith Boi
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights [Matador, 2002]
While the music of Interpol may always be inextricably tied to comparisons to Joy Division – most of which doing them little favor, it must be added too – there is no doubting that Turn On The Bright Lights managed to...
Decade’s best 30 albums #26
By Keith Boi
One of the finest of those supposedly limited-edition compilations released in the past decade that I managed to get my hands on a few years back, via a friend (the hard-copy version, that is – oh now, those waning glory days of CDs!), was The Golden Apples of the Sun, the album...
Decade’s best 30 albums #27
By Keith Boi
In the years since it was released in 2001, I have developed this almost irrational affection for the slim collection of songs that is Oh, Inverted World (11 songs, 32 minutes in and out), especially considering that I have come to be rather lukewarm on the subsequent Shins albums....
Personal Favourite Album of 2009
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart [Slumberland]
By Iliyas Ong
Too often, the word ‘best’ means ‘cutting-edge’, ‘fresh’, and, frankly, rather unlistenable. While you won’t find this on many end-of-year lists (you’d have to love Animal...
Decade’s best 30 albums #28
By Keith Boi
There is a moment within the first 25 pages of the Haruki Murakami novel Dance Dance Dance that never fails to crack me up; that is when this hotel manager dude was sizing up the protagonist (a doppelganger for Murakami himself, as always) and wasn’t left particularly impressed by...
Decade’s best 30 albums #29
By Keith Boi
If I remember correctly, I was commuting on the bus when I first listened to St Dymphna, and I started excitedly texting a bunch of friends about how simply awesome Gang Gang Dance are. My initial thought was that it's going to be the one album that’s going to have as much an...
Decade’s best 30 albums #30
By Keith Boi
By this time of year, I suppose most folks, magazines and blogs who care about such things would be done with their best-of-decade lists. I originally wanted to put out mine, a list of my favorite 30 albums released between 2000 and 2009, before Christmas but it turns out to be not...
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (V2 Records)
By Keith Boi
French band Phoenix have always been a reliable source of infectious pop songs in a guilty-pleasure sort of way for me. But their latest album, the fantastically named Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix released about five months ago, is proving to be a more than serviceable listen, if only...
Handsome Furs live @ HOME Club 18/09/09: Review
By Keith Boi
I was half hoping the Handsome Furs gig be something like the zombie video for their single 'I’m Confused'; guess the fine young cannibals were out of commission last night, but that’s alright ma, we’re only bleeding. Eyes were saucered on the pair of excitable spouses,...
Meza Virs – Vida Sacrificium Meum Est (Mourning Sound)
By Mark Wong
If Rudra’s gig at the Esplanade last year was any sign of a wind of change in the mainstream’s attitude towards home-grown metal, Meza Virs’ debut album may just be the storm to bust open the dams of popular perception. Vida Sacrificium Meum Est is an impossibly...
Recent Comments
ANDYCheapTabletsOnline.Com. Canadian Health&Care.Special Internet Prices.Best quality drugs.No prescription...
TERRENCECheapTabletsOnline.com. Canadian Health&Care.Best quality drugs.No prescription online pharmacy.Special...
TYLERCheapTabletsOnline.com. Canadian Health&Care.No prescription online pharmacy.Best quality drugs.Special...
bestbuy D XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> bit.ly | Basic | a...
