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In Short: The Submarines ‘Love Notes/Letter Bombs’

May 25, 2011 by Lachy 0 Comments

Quite a few bands are currently struggling to throw off the tag of ‘those guys who had that song in that Apple ad’. LA indie pop group The Submarines however are trying to do likewise to the tag of ‘those guys who had those two songs in those Apple ads’. There are certainly worse problems to have as a band, but the risk of having your music pigeon-holed and dismissed must also be fairly high. In their third album however, ‘Love Notes/Letter Bombs’, The Submarines haven’t gone for any extreme changes but instead have refined the sound of the first two albums into a very strong record that will see them break out from the shadow of the apple once and for all.

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Album Review: Bon Iver ‘Bon Iver’

May 20, 2011 by Lachy 0 Comments

‘For Emma’ was so 2008. Welcome to the newer, meaner, denser Bon Iver. A year ago it seemed alien to imagine a Bon Iver song that required more than a couple of instruments, but in reality this new, more complex sound is a direction that Justin Vernon has been hinting at in his live shows for the better part of three years. The fact that he never tried to transcribe the sparseness and desolation of ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’ into a live show, but instead insisted on using a full band and plenty of instrumentation, was perhaps an indicator that he thought the album was impossible to recreate. And the fact that he hasn’t tried to recreate ‘For Emma’ in Bon Iver’s latest self-titled album turns out to be nothing short of a stroke of genius.

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Album Review: Eddie Vedder ‘Ukulele Songs’

May 13, 2011 by Lachy 4 Comments

Not any rock ‘n roll frontman could pull off a solo record like ‘Ukulele Songs’, but then Eddie Vedder isn’t just any rock ‘n roll frontman.

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Album Review: Foster The People ‘Torches’

May 12, 2011 by Lachy 2 Comments

Every so often you come across an album that you know you are going to adore before you even listen to it. Foster The People’s debut record ‘Torches’ is one of these albums. Partly, that’s because we’ve already heard nearly half of the album on their self-titled EP. Mostly however, it’s because this is a band simply incapable of writing a bad song and whose music is oozing with so much charisma, polish, skill, and- well- coolness, that not to love it would take a serious and concentrated effort.

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Album Review: The Hazelman Brothers ‘Eyesight Like An Owl’

May 12, 2011 by Lachy 0 Comments

Holy three-part harmonies, batman! The Hazelman Brothers are Chris, Mick, and Stu from Melbourne, and ‘Eyesight Like An Owl’ is their debut album, full of complex multi-part guitar layering, gentle folk melodies, and tons of gorgeous harmonies.

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Album Review: Okkervil River ‘I Am Very Far’

April 26, 2011 by Lachy 1 Comment

Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff is a former music critic, and it therefore comes as no surprise that his band has become somewhat of a critical darling. Okkervil River’s sixth album, ‘I Am Very Far’, is the first record that perhaps threatens this reputation. That isn’t to say it’s a bad album- quite the opposite is true in fact- but rather that it is less accessible, more raw, and less polished than pretty much anything else the Texan outfit have released to date.

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