AltWeeklies Wire
New Album Will Resonate With Fans of Mutable Downtemponew
With quivery dub as the hub, the duo of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton has crafted 15 billowing reams of hand-loomed textures on their fourth full-length, The Cosmic Game.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
02-17-2005 |
Reviews
Block-Rocking Beatsnew
Monolithic is a word that's bandied about haphazardly in music journalism. No other word can accurately describe the voluminous presence of the keening music.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
02-10-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Critics' Darlings Hit the Roadnew
Arcade Fire has been quietly gaining popularity with quivering, heartfelt pop tunes that are about resilience in the face of alienation, exile and the inevitability of death.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
01-21-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Arcade Fire
Rolling with Kaine of the Ying Yang Twinsnew
Like every other Ying Yang release, the new album offers a view of Atlanta from where-the-girls-scrub-the-ground on up. It's an aural expression of their groundedness.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
12-09-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ying Yang Twins
Album Infiltrates and Imbues Pop with Dimensionalitynew
Across 12 tracks, Le Tigre makes like Chicks on Speed to Blondie to J.J. Fad; screechy and preachy to hopscotch hip-hop. However, the buffing of the chaotic lo-fi hiccups makes Le Tigre's staunch missives seem less urgent.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
12-02-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Le Tigre, This Island
The Merits of Magnetic Fields' Frontman Stephin Merrittnew
Merritt is the modern definition of consummate tunesmith, writing in a myriad of musical styles (rock, show tune, new wave, country, punk). He calls this eclectic mix "the variety show," and his albums consist of strapping the variously styled songs together with a loosely themed binding.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
12-02-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Magnetic Fields
Red Bull Music Academy Breaks Boundariesnew
Atlanta-based DJ/producer Rasta Root participates in Red Bull Music Academy, where up-and-coming artists get to study with some much-sought-after, behind-the-scenes music makers. The goal is to expand traditional musical boundaries.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-26-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rasta Root
Album Takes an Unconventional Approach to Hip-Hopnew
Williams shows how spoken word can be explosive-tipped and delivered in propulsive patois that puts many a mercurial MC to shame.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Saul Williams
Second Album Mix of Bubblegum Pop and Post-Punknew
Brooklyn's the Rogers Sisters could just as well be from Athens circa 1982. The group's latest release has you wondering if you've run across a perfectly preserved artifact from over two decades ago.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: The Rogers Sisters, Three Fingers
Four Musicians Have a Hell of a Way with Soundsnew
Sung Tongs is a baptism of blissful squalls threaded with melodic wisps, fuzzy pop ritualistically sifted from droning sediment. It reflects the group's varied influences, which include the Beach Boys, Syd Barrett, Captain Beefheart and the Incredible String Band.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-11-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Animal Collective, Sung Tongs
Life Seems Neither Morose or Obtuse Enoughnew
Type O Negative's first album in four years features all the group's hallmarks: lyrics both mournful and puerile, delivered in Steele's grave, guttural voice.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
Not a Single Note Rings Superfluousnew
Despite the sinister history behind "Abaddon" -- a Hebrew word for a destructive hell (and as easily a play on abandon) -- Pinback's third full-length is the duo's most assured and plotted.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
10-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Pinback, Summer in Abaddon
DJ Has Come Into His Own With New Albumnew
Put the name aside, however, because Jaku is still fraught with delicious tension. Live shakuhachi flute, Kodo drums, turntable jabs and free jazz piano all punctuate his melancholic, melodic laments.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
10-21-2004 |
Reviews
Group Makes Connections Not Originally Intended to Existnew
The group mixes sprawling shards of percolating percussion with burbling bass and hiccuping vocals, creating a micro-edited chaotic bliss. But where past material bristled, Connector bustles.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
10-14-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mouse on Mars, Radical Connector
The Faint Pads its Pants a Bit With Latest Releasenew
Wet From Birth, the third full-length from serrated synth-pop revivalists the Faint, is -- despite the title -- neither a birth nor rebirth for the Omaha-based quintet; it is a gestation.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
10-14-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: The Faint, Wet From Birth
