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Here, It Never Snowed, Afterwards It Did is a "re-working" of tracks from the band's amazing 2007 debut, Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
-- plus a few new cuts. This time around, the Glaswegian quartet
strip-down the layers of distortion and overlapping delays to add space
via droning experimentation, and the use of classical instruments.
Is it good enough that a band like My Morning Jacket
has released several magnificent full-lengths, built a reputation as
the premier live rock band in the biz and still drop an average album
-- which will definitely bother purists? Yes.
Continue reading Album Review: My Morning Jacket - 'Evil Urges'.
After a five-year absence, Jason Pierce was hospitalized with double pneumonia for long period of time, our favorite spaceman comes down to Earth with an album of mellow, clean-rock.
Continue reading Album Review: Spiritualized - 'Songs in A & E'.
Midnight Juggernauts built a solid reputation for their live performances, mixing influences of dream-pop and anthemic rock with pounding dance beats. Today, the group's debut album sees its stateside release. Read our take on Dystopia.
Continue reading Album Review: Midnight Juggernauts - 'Dystopia'.
The Austin quintet sound more and more like a band breaking free from the shackles of their Brian Jonestown Massacre-Spacemen 3 comparisons on Directions to See a Ghost.
Continue reading Album Review: The Black Angels - 'Directions to See a Ghost'.