Category: Album Reviews
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The History Of Sleater-Kinney
What makes a modern girl? Is it happiness, hunger, or anger? Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney claims all of these things make her a modern girl on their most popular song “Modern Girl.” Sleater-Kinney is an American indie rock band that formed in 1994 in Olympia, Washington. It is spearheaded by founding members Corin Tucker, who…
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Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You Album Review
Big Thief’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You begins “Change like the wind/Like the water, like skin/Change like the sky/Like the leaves, like a butterfly,” a down-to-earth opener that confronts us with mortality and questions if it’s such a bad thing. Adrianne Lenker, Big Thief’s primary songwriter, continues to insert reminders of change…
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Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Album Review
West on this album is telling the listener a story, whether the subject he is rapping about is Racism in America on “Gorgeous” or explaining to us why no one man should have all the power he has it is all a part of his Twisted Fantasy. Kanye starts the story with the opening track…
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Beach House – Bloom Album Review
Beach House’s fourth album Bloom is the band’s fully realized sound in high definition. On Beach House’s third album, Teen Dream, the songs were more ambitious than any of their previous output, but they expand on those ideas even further on Bloom. Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand’s typical instrument pallet, synthesizers, electric guitars, and drum machines,…
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Beach House – Teen Dream Album Review
At this point in Beach House’s career the two members, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally, have had time to carefully construct their signature sound, and on their third album, Teen Dream, we see that sound evolve. Beach House’s first two albums were hazy and lonely, the albums sounded like something you would listen to by…