Tag Archives: music

Album Reviews

1—->3—–>5
Terrible—>Fantastic

5

4
Alias – Resurgam
Baptista, Cyro – Banquet of the Spirits
Bembeya Jazz National – Syliphone Years, The
Budos Band, The – Budos Band II, The
Budos Band, The – Budos Band, The
Buraka Som Sistema – Black Diamond
Buraka Som Sistema – From Buraka to the World EP
Collins, Bootsy – Back in the Day The Best of Bootsy
Cranes – Cranes
Franz Ferdinand – Tonight

3
A Mountain of One – Collected Works
Adams, John – Road Movies
Astatke, Mulatu – Mulatu of Ethiopia
Atlas Sound – Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Battles – Mirrored
Beans – Thorns
Cheveu – Cheveu
Durrty Goodz – Ultrasound
Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna

2
Awesome Color – Electric Aborigines
Black Francis – Bluefinger
DJ Babu – Duck Season, Volume 03
Ipso Facto – Mannequin 7″
J Rawls and Middle Child – Rawls and Middle

1
Adele – 19
Against Me – tons
Glasvegas – Glasvegas
Jones, Grace – Hurricane

Pitchfork Sucks (for real this time)

When pressed to comment about Pitchfork, I usually dismiss it as the stuff of hipsters everywhere. But if asked privately for general outstanding sources of music news, I always include it. Now, however, I am dropping it from my recommendation list, because the writing has sunk from elitist erudite dissections to snarky editorialized drivel. Although the past month or so has been filled with news posts along these lines, this dis on Miley Cyrus is the straw that broke my two-humped camel back.

First, Cyrus criticizing Radiohead is not news. Second, slamming Cyrus at every opportunity is child’s play. Third, making her out to be an idiot is a bit odd when taking into account that she’s got gajillions of dollars over anyone associated with Pitchfork; this is essentially my Paris Hilton defense: Who’s the stupid one if she’s raking in the bucks and you’re sitting pinching pennies so you can buy another Miller Lite?

My last problem with the post is the assumption she is incapable of holding a worthwhile conversation about music just because she is involved in the pop machine. The decision to make that type of music does not mean she is clueless about music (or anything else for that matter). And if you work the logic backwards, does Pitchfork assume that everyone who listens to “sophisticated” or “good” music is a musical genius worth reading? If we were to simply dismiss anyone based on their musical tastes, I would be the first to dismiss Pitchfork for their schoolgirl obsession with Kanye, whose one-trick-pony production style and crybaby antics put him in the pantheon of spoiled overrated undertalented noisemakers.

Album Reviews

1——>3—–>5
Terrible—–>Fantastic

5
Clinic – Do It!
Craig, Carl – Sessions
Flying Lotus – 1983
Flying Lotus – July Heat
Flying Lotus – Reset EP
Gas – Nah und Fern
Hancock, Herbie – Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions
Hooker, John Lee and Miles Davis – Hot Spot, The
V/A – Music of Islam, Volume 10 (Qur’an Recitation, Istanbul, Turkey)
V/A – Music of Islam, Volume 11 (Yemen, Sanana)
V/A – Music of Islam, Volume 12 (Iran, Karaj)
V/A – Music of Islam, Volume 13 (Pakistan, Lahore)
V/A – Music of Islam, Volume 14 (Mystic Music)
V/A – New Orleans FUnk, 1960-75
Rodriquez Lopez, Omar – Calibration

4
A Place to Bury Strangers – A Place to Bury Strangers
Bear in Heaven – Red Bloom of the Boom
Cave, Nick and the Bad Seeds – Dig Lazarus Dig
Dae Holland Quintet – Prime Directive
Deerhoof – Offend Maggie
Ellen Allien – Sool
Ghetto Don, The – Ghetto Don, The
Insect Factory – Air Traffic Control Sleep
Insect Factory – Snowflakes
James Pants – Welcome
Kuti, Seun and Egypt 80 – Many Things
Loefah – Mad Ruffage [DMZ009]
Loefah – Roots Goat Stare [DMZ006]
Loefah and Skream – TEC003
Mitchell, Elizabeth – You are My Little Bird
Mogwai – Hawk is Howling, The
Portunondo, Omara – Flor de Amor
Psapp – Camel’s Back, The [Instrumental]
Psapp – Tiger, My Friend
Soulja Boy – SouljaBoy Tellem
TITS – Throughout the Ages
TITS – Tittie Tour Teaser
TV on the Radio – Dear Science
Wiley – Wearing My Rolex

3
Blood Red Shoes – Box of Secrets
DMBQ – Annular Music
Dorian Concept – Seek When is Her
Elzhi – Preface, The
Emynd and 4AM Jess – Shake Whut Ya Got
Heliocentrics, The – Out There
Jake One – White Van Music
JME – Famous
Kuti, Seun – Live at Festival Lugano in Switzerland [2007]
Loefah and Coki – Deep Medi Musik [MEDI003]
Loxy and Usual Suspects – StalkerFracture
L-Wiz – Girlfriend
L-Wiz – Strength
Psychosis – TempestInner Sense
Roberson, Eric – Appetizer, The
Roberson, Eric – Collection, The
Roberson, Eric – Left
Roberson, Eric – Vault, The, Volume 1.5
Samuel, Jeff – Bork
Shaggs, The – Philosophy of the World
Young Knives, The – Superabundance

2
Ay? – Joyful
Crystal Stilts – Alight of Night
Dirtbombs – Ultraglide in Black
DMBQ – Esoteric Black Hair
Fabulous Diamonds – Fabulous Diamonds
Greyboy Allstars, The – What Happened to Television
Hercules and Love Affair – Hercules and Love Affair
V/A – Jazz and ’80s
Loefah – Jungle Infiltrator [BAM006]
Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I
Orient – Look at My Eyes EP
Ra Ra Riot – Rhumb Line, The

1
Elias, Hanin – Future Noir
Ghetto – Freedom of Speech
Mya – Sugar and Spice
Open City – Birth of Cruel, The
Risque Bouquet – Flood
These New Puritans – Beat Pyramid
Vivian Girls – Vivian Girls