Calexico, "Voices in the Field" For a split second, at the beginning of this track, there's a burly menace to the sound that the seasoned Five Songs reader/listener would suspect is going to descend into some nightmare basement howling and guitarpocalypse. But no, it's...
Big day today! This marks a full year of perfect updating. That's 1,825 songs, plus a few duplicates (which I don't say much about). I write a little paragraph for each of these things, most of the time. Sometimes a throwaway, sometimes a bit...
The Decemberists, "Summersong" I've talked a little about the Four Album theory, which is that some great metal bands (Metallica, Krallice, Mastodon) will push things as far as they can with their sound over four albums, before taking off in a different direction. It's half-baked,...
