album review

Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim (2008) Thumbnail

Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim (2008)

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

I go through weird music phases. I’ll get into a genre for a couple weeks and try to get as many albums as I can. If you look at my ever-growing and obese iTunes library, arranged auto-biographically a-la High Fidelity, you’ll see blocks of 70’s R&B, Trip-Hop, Euro-Death Metal, Ambient Post-Rock, 90’s Hip Hop, Free Jazz […]

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The Fall Of Troy - Manipulator (2007) Thumbnail

The Fall Of Troy - Manipulator (2007)

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Manipulator is my proudest discovery (actually, it was The Great White Gypsy’s discovery) of 2007 and maybe the entire decade.  I haven’t heard a combination of musicianship, energy, lyrics and raw emotion this cohesive since Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness. And I’m fully aware that comparing three kids barely old enough to drink to […]

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