Review: Turbines
OnTurbines is the fifth album from London’s Tunng, and the first I’ve heard. When I put the album on I had no idea what to expect. The cover art has a kaleidoscopic pattern, and neither band name nor album titled offered any…
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Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
Review: Lonely Teenager
OnSo, we’re stealin’ the idea from the Sparks Project and doing one with probably even more records out there — The Residents! And this time we’re changing it up a little bit — we’ve got two hardcore Residents fans in me and…
Review: Kleine Krieg
OnEdward Ka-Spel‘s brilliance with The Legendary Pink Dots is to introduce us to isolated characters and then immerse us in their world-view through expansive and mysterious soundscapes. He begins with the most restricted, infinitesimal point of consciousness and then slowly expands it…
Review: Breach
OnI always think of Yep Roc as primarily an alt-country label, but while they do release a fair amount of that sort of thing, their main operating principle is to release good music, and they do that very well. They’ve become the…
Review: Chemical Playschool 1 & 2
OnEdward Ka-Spel’s brilliance with The Legendary Pink Dots is to introduce us to isolated characters and then immerse us in their world-view through expansive and mysterious soundscapes. He begins with the most restricted, infinitesimal point of consciousness and then slowly expands it…
Review: Kill The Wolf
OnIt’s not a surprise that I would love Matt Berry’s brand new album Kill The Wolf, considering that I spent most of the Snuff Box review I ran recently talking about the bonus soundtrack CD that came with the American DVD. (And…
It’s Not As Bad As You Think It Is: The Canyons Is A Brilliant Movie
OnWhen I was waiting to get into the Roxie Theater in San Francisco last Friday night, some people got into line behind me and immediately began chatting idiotically about how terrible the movie was going to be. “This is going to be…
Review: Mr. Bad Example
OnIf I tell you that Warren Zevon is awesome, it shouldn’t be news. Maybe the fact that I used the present tense, seeing as he’s been dead for about a decade, but I would say that death does not diminish awesomeness. It…
Review: Mindsploitation
OnI never thought that there could be a book adaptation of Final Flesh, but then Vernon Chatman follows that film up with Mindsploitation, which… kinda is. With Final Flesh, he found a couple of porn studios that would let you write up…
Review: Two Hands, One Mouth: Live In Europe
OnWho don’t love Sparks? I suppose the folks who don’t know who Sparks are might not love Sparks, but that’s only because of plum ignorance. But REST EASY, reader — we’re here to set you straight by reviewing ALL the Sparks records…