Eternal Summers, Correct Behavior
While I thoroughly enjoyed Roanoke, Virginia, trio (well, then still a duo) Eternal Summers’ debut album Silver, I remember thinking that the album was more of a stepping stone for what would come next…
Surfer Blood, Tarot Classics
Tarot Classics is a six-song EP from the most awesomely-named band Surfer Blood. Despite being about half the length of a normal album (you know, in terms of songs), this is quite possibly one of the finest pieces of music I have ever heard…
Eternal Summers, Prisoner EP
With their most recent EP, Prisoner, quirky post-shoegazers Eternal Summers ride a fine, fine line, and right when it’d be all too easy to fall off completely and go one way or the other, they yank the handlebars back in the opposite direction…
Pepper Rabbit, Beauregard
More than anything else, I find myself wanting to point over to fellow gentle indie-folksters Fleet Foxes each time I run through Pepper Rabbit’s debut release, Beauregard; the music made by both bands unfolds slowly and deliberately, warm as a blanket yet still seemingly fragile…
The Depreciation Guild, Spirit Youth
Few things are as constant as America’s need for cultural nostalgia. We Americans collectively loved the flower power revival of the mid-1990s and the recent movie remakes of classic 1980s cartoons. In fact, even our environmental disasters are rehashed 1980s tragedies (Ixtoc I, anyone?)…
Surfer Blood, Astro Coast
Go buy this album. Right now. Don’t bother reading this review. Honestly, the time it takes you to read this could be better served searching the internet for a good deal on Astro Coast. For the rest of you who enjoy reading a poorly reasoned and misinformed review, continue on…
