With this album Bibio is all about taking on different personas and having a ball, from coldly disjointed staccato love ballads to wise-ass rhymes sung […]
Author: Andy Whitaker
Melodium :: Petit Jama EP (s/r)
Petit Jama feels intensely intimate. The packaging and screen-printing are all done by Girard himself and the mastering job is low-fi enough to feel hand-made […]
Melodium :: Palimpse (Symbolic Interaction)
(March 2010) Before listening to the newest Melodium album, I assumed the majority of French musician Laurent Girard’s work followed the blueprint of hallucinatory folk […]
Wes Willenbring :: Close, but not too Close (Hidden Shoal)
(March 2010) Close, but not too Close is the stunning second record from San Francisco musician Wes Willenbring, released by the good people at Hidden […]
Lusine :: A Certain Distance (Ghostly)
(February 2010) I am going to be honest; when first reading on Ghostly International’s website that the new Lusine album, A Certain Distance, employed vocals […]
Milinal :: Honey Meridian (Audiobulb)
(February 2010) Honey Meridian is the debut full length from Moscow musician Valentin Lakovley, under the project name Milinal. This digital LP from Audiobulb records […]
V/A :: One On Twoism Volume 3 (Twoism)
(January 2010) Like most music fans I get almost embarrassingly excited about stumbling into a quality artist I’ve never experienced before. It’s almost better than […]
Prefuse 73 :: Meditation on Meditations (the Japanese Diaries) (Beat)
(January 2010) Prefuse 73 is a classic example of an outstanding talent that was almost destroyed by its own success. Guillermo Scott Herren (the brain […]