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Review: Boris – New Album
I really ought to have reviewed this album back in March when it was released, because a few things about it have changed. For one thing, the band has since released two additional full lengths,...
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Review: Boris – Attention Please
I like to think of Attention Please as Boris’s main release for the year. If the other two are really good, this one’s something closer to brilliant. Typically when Boris release a “normal”...
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Review: Deafheaven – Roads to Judah
It’s not really a coincidence that the two genres of music I’ve listened to most over the years are black metal and post-rock. Something about tremolo guitar very consistently inspires me, and these...
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VGM Entry 26: Tim Follin’s noise machine
VGM Entry 26: Tim Follin’s noise machine (Thanks to Tish at FFShrine for the banner) In most cases it’s fairly reasonable to think of the ZX Spectrum as a secondary system for game music. It didn’t...
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Review: Alcest – Les Voyages De L’Âme
You would be hard-pressed to find an album which more reviews have simultaneously labeled generic and beautiful than Les Voyages De L’Âme. It’s an odd situation. Neige has definitely found his sound. I...
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Ten Years #27: Alcest
Decade of last.fm scrobbling countdown: 27. Alcest (1,127 plays) Top track (154 plays): Souvenirs d’un autre monde, from Souvenirs d’un autre monde (2007) Featured track: Là Où Naissent Les Couleurs...
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Review: Woods of Desolation – As the Stars
Has it really been two years since I’ve reviewed a new album? The fact came as a bit of surprise, but here it is late October and I’m staring at a massive horde of 2014 releases that I’ve barely...
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Review: Boris – Noise
Black cat. Halloween. Coincidence? But you shouldn’t have been looking at that. You should have been looking at the two words surrounding it, because it suggests something we haven’t heard much of in...
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Review: Alcest – Shelter
I have a bad habit of failing to keep up with bands in the years after their big breakthrough albums. As a consequence, I tend to be caught off guard when I find an old band doing something drastically...
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Neon Dream #9: Air – Alone in Kyoto
Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation left a strange impression on me. In a way I can only really compare to Casablanca, it burrowed into my memory like an actual personal experience. I don’t review...
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