Call And Response Record’s new compilation album Dancing After 1 AM didn’t need a hook to grab our attention. The 18-track album (full disclosure: released by our friend Ian Martin) features new songs from some of the best rock artists going in Japan. She Talks Silence contribute a shadowy guitar number, while The Mornings jerky…
It’s easy to forget in a world where information buzzes about at the same rate lolcats spill out of the Internet’s tubes, but sometimes turning away from the rush of now can be a swell idea. This seems especially true for those who breathe music blogs – and, of course, those who write them. New…
10. Nu Clear Classmate “Blank World” “Suicide Pop,” Nu Clear Classmate’s self-created genre of choice, would be a tough one to explain save for the efforts of one pop star to define it for the world by complete accident – M.I.A. Her mostly reviled 2010 album ///Y/…for the record, not nearly as bad as critics…
Electronic music rarely sounds lonely – all the bright blasts and bumping beats conjure images of a crowded club, not an empty house. Even one of the chilliest and most solitary electro-leaning albums of recent memory – The Knife’s Silent Shout – featured the dancefloor slayer “We Share Our Mother’s Heart.” Even when artists try…