The Sure Shot Hunters – After Midnight
Rarely does a band come along with such an unpretentious and groovy approach to music craft. In today’s commercial climate, most bands are afraid to deeply explore the nature of groove and rhythm for fear of losing sales. It’s all image and style, rather than music.
The Sure Shot […]

I bought this CD just about half an hour ago at the show they just played, I’m so glad I finally caught this band live. What I have sitting in my hands here is a re-issue of an old album, ‘Selected Recordings 2002-2004′.

I’ve had their other album - The Tomorrow We Were Promised Yesterday - […]

Walk the Earth Rampant Calamities
I first heard this EP whilst drinking at my best friend’s house. I remembered being excited about what I was hearing, losing myself in the newness of the music.
Upon a more sober listen, I was delighted to have the same feeling. Here was something that both intrigued and energized my […]

Alright. First off… fellers, sorry, what the fuck:
Track 9: Part of the Friction, kinda cool intro bit, then the might lyrics bust out:
“Yes, no, yes, no, maybe, no”
Seriously. What the hell happened? This most recent album by these dudes grabbed me no where near as much as The Trees ARE Dead & Dried OUT Wait […]

Way back in 1995, I visited my brother and heard this ungodly noise pouring from his stereo. Up until that moment I thought I was the metalhead of the family. Yet here was my little brother listening to stuff more full on than I was.
The music turned out to be Strapping Young Lad, Heavy […]

This is a beautiful album.
It grew and grew on me, there are so many moments where it leaves a lump in your throat.
Conor Oberst (singey man) has a funny fidgety-sounding kinda voice that lends a nervous urgency to the whole thing, it feels immediate and real and tender. There’s an undeniable passion to the whole […]

This album really grabbed me when I first heard it, then I got really bored of it, then it grabbed my interest again for a while, then I got sick of it again, and now I’m back into it.
I wasn’t sure what to think really, I dug the dual vocals and not-too-serious lyrical content and […]

This is almost an ‘oldie’ I guess, this electronica album from 1999 has been one of my most listened to albums of recent months, I seem to come back to it time and time again.
There’s something effortless about the structure and flow of this thing that grabs me. It’s a concept album with a romantic […]

This is the band’s 2nd release as far as I know (released 2006), and it’s one of those albums you can put on repeat a few billion times and not get bored of. Faerd - or Færd - are a 3 piece playing old folk tunes, predominately from Denmark and Sweden… lots of polskas which […]

To start on a negative, I didn’t really expect much from this release. Devin is having a child and growing up and doing married-guy stuff. To get any of the angstyful teen rebellion fun of the ‘old’ SYL might be too much to ask. For all intents and purposes Strapping is a job for Devin, […]