Musicon / Blogosphere / The Band 1969, this most rustic of albums
musicon.byzantinewalls.org – Blogosphere. Wash your hands in lye water; you’ve got a date with the Band’s 1969 self-titled masterpiece. Of all the things that make this album so completely awesome — and there are so many I doubt we’ll get to all of them — I am ::More
Musicon / TopLatest / The Slave Ambient of War on Drugs
musicon.byzantinewalls.org- Top. Philadelphia hypno-roots-rock outfit the War On Drugs’ gloriously expansive second album shares several qualities with its 2008 predecessor, Wagonwheel Blues. There’s a sense of open-freeway abandon and splendid isolation set against a glorious ::More
Musicon / Blogosphere / Malkmus and the Jicks in Mirror Traffic
musicon.byzantinewalls.org – Blogosphere. It might be odd to say this about someone who has been around as long as Stephen Malkmus has, but it seems like he’s finally comfortable in his own skin on Mirror Traffic. Sometimes, the best way to get over the past is to embrace it. At ::More
Musicon / TopLatest / Grandaddy tooling around in the basement: The Sophtware Slump
musicon.byzantinewalls.org- Top. Grandaddy’s sad, quaint, low-key Y2K-era classic– with a sound that borrows a little of Neil Young’s earthy tenderness, a little of Pavement’s indifference, and a little of the switched-on melancholy of an ELO ballad– gets the deluxe ::More
Musicon / Blogosphere / Father, Son, Holy Ghost: an even better album by Girls
musicon.byzantinewalls.org – Blogosphere. Indie and alternative rock have historically always used music from decades (and sometimes centuries) past as a means of gazing forward in concocting a new, rich and exciting tapestry of music. As good as their debut Album is, the Girls band has ::More
