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PREGNANT – Life Hard: I Try (Part 3)
Life Hard: I Try might have a shorter shelf life than previously thought – not just because Trudeau thought releasing it via cassette tape initially was the most righteously awesome thing he could do for his career. In other news, Brandon is available and bearded.
PREGNANT – Life Hard: I Try (Part 2)
So, Sarah agrees with me. She is after all, my audiovole. But then she pulls out Rogue Wave’s Our of the Shadow… and I’m all like WTF, dude? I wasn’t like that at all. Mostly this is just a love fest for fellow AV contributor, Natalie Snoyman. A well deserved love fest.
PREGNANT – Life Hard: I Try (Part 1)
Life Hard: I Try is the fourth LP from the Sacramento based artist and musician, Daniel Trudeau. It’s a true grower – an annoying colicky baby on first listen, a petulant brat the second time, but eventually revealing itself to be a complex Lothario whispering sweet nothings into your ear. Or something like that. Brandon … Continue reading
BEIRUT – The Rip Tide (Pts 1-4)
Beirut’s third LP, The Rip Tide, is either Zach Condon’s best effort to date or a minor work that sees a prodigious and incredibly young talent in a holding pattern. Depends on who you ask. Brandon and Cutter had at it and one man emerged victorious.
BEIRUT – The Rip Tide (Part 4)
Cutter lays the smack down and establishes himself as the more mature, level headed reviewer in this final leg of The Rip Tide dialectic. He also informs Brandon that if he may be more “hopeless” than “romantic,” which, I’ll be honest, kind of stung a little bit.
BEIRUT – The Rip Tide (Part 3)
“If the National are a one trick pony, their trick is giving blowjobs.” That’s right. Brandon took the “one trick pony” metaphor a step further and maybe a step too far. That, at the end of an already long-ass post. Dude had a lot to say. Most of it’s interesting though, I promise.
BEIRUT – The Rip Tide (Part 2)
Cutter argues that The Rip Tide is Condon’s most personal effort to date and, therefore, his favorite. He also goes to town bludgeoning a one trick pony metaphor to the point that we had to call in the Humane Society to get the son of a bitch to lay off. Hide yo wife, hide yo … Continue reading
BEIRUT – The Rip Tide (Part 1)
Brandon pens a lovely letter to his old friend, Cutter Davis, about his inability to get laid in college. It may or may not have anything to do with Beirut’s third LP, The Rip Tide, out now on his very own imprint, Pompeii. Is this young Zach Condon’s holding pattern or a harbinger for the … Continue reading
MOONFACE – Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped (Pts 1-5)
Spencer Krug’s debut LP from his solo-project, Moonface, titled Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped via Jagjaguwar. After a week Sarah started to dig it while Brandon said it didn’t make him want to stab himself in the face with a rusty spade. That’s a good thing, right? All five parts of what turned … Continue reading
MOONFACE – Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped (Part 5)
In this thrilling conclusion to the Organ Music dialectic, Sarah accuses Brandon of being dramatic and makes up an acronym, which she then explains, thus eliminating the efficacy of the acronym. Also, listen to the final song of the album.
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