“The King Is Dead” THE DECEMBERISTS Rough Trade 2011 7 / 10 Just in a corner between the more folk songs by R.E.M., Mr. Neil Young and The Long Winters, it is set the new work by The Decemberists, “The King Is Dead” (yes, resuming the Queen from The Smiths, of course!), where Colin Meloy’s [ Read More ]
“Black Lightning” THE BELLRAYS Naive 2010 7.5 / 10 Combining the strongest USA’s garage rock with the so hot soul voice by Lisa Kekaula, The BellRays, from 1990 on the top of the American alternative music charts, happily make a gift to all of their fans (and not only), mixing, as usual, blues lessons [ Read More ]
“Strategies Against Architecture IV” EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN Pitchfork / Mute 2010 8+ / 10 Glacial atmospheres forced with the post-industrial flow by the storic german band, that gives this compilation-best of their more recent carreer, from 2002 to nowadays. Listening to the two volumes of this “Strategies Against Architecture IV” is a mephistophelean trip that speeds [ Read More ]
