Frisk Frugt, "Solhyldest 1. del" No, I don't know what's wrong with me. Constantines, "Shine a Light" A thing that's cool about this song is how restless it is. They've gone through multiple ideas in the first minute of the tune, which is nice to...
Swingin' Utters, "Here We Are Nowhere" A while back, I wrote some code to pull data from Discogs for my collection to see what year albums were released for another project that I was working on. That project might still see the light of day!...
Haggard Cat, "Life and Limb" Silence is a Dangerous Sound: A Tribute to Fugazi is a huge comp, featuring a bunch of bands each doing one Fugazi tune. The interpretations range from pretty faithful to pretty decomposed, as is de rigueur for this sort of...
Afghan Whigs, "Retarded" Uh, yikes. "Television's gone / I'm alone with Lucifer / what a drag" is such an outstanding summary of Greg Dulli's lyrical work with the Whigs. Shame about the slurs, though. The Temptations, "I Wish It Would Rain" A thing that gets a little...
Panopticon, "Blåtimen" Panopticon, the band that is actually just Austin Lunn, gained attention with Kentucky, where Lunn merged his love of Appalachian folk music with his love of black metal and produced an amalagam of the two, creating one of the most distinctive and interesting...
