Jónsi & Alex is Jónsi Birgisson, Sigur Rós vocalist/guitar player-with-bow extraordinaire, and Alex Somers, musician and visual artist to, among others, Sigur Rós. On their debut album, Riceboy Sleeps, they combine for one mother of a meandering glide through the subtleties of sound. The album started as a side project between Sigur Rós recordings...
These days it’s getting harder and harder to find something to smile about. Grin, the second album of Toronto-based blueVenus offers itself for consideration. Grin is a tale of hurdles; the overcoming of them, the outright avoidance of them, and the tracks of tears and smiles of the miles in between. The album starts...
Dredg is hard to dig at. Call them what you may—progressive, alternative, art-rock, weird—and it somehow never fits, like trying to squeeze King Kong into a pair of Abercrombie and Fitch jeans. Their fourth studio album, The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion, is heavy, the way things used to be groovy, or bitchin’, or...
Thrice is one of the best bands going. With their latest release Beggars, the band’s seventh studio album, they further establish themselves as a band who doesn’t allow its sound to grow complacent. Fresh off the experimental The Alchemy Index, Thrice has refocused itself on groove. Recorded in their garage studio, Beggars sounds like...
She & Him have to be the wet dream of lovers-of-all-things-Indie. Zooey Deschanel, the actress you can’t help but fall in love with, and M. Ward, the troubadour you can’t help but tap your toes to. Together, on their debut album Volume One, they forge full steam ahead on the long trip back to...
British singer-songwriter Natasha Khan, better known as Bat for Lashes, created a buzz with the luscious fantastic landscapes of her 2006 debut Fur and Gold; think Tori Amos while she was writing Little Earthquakes sitting in the same room as Bjork while she was writing Homogenic while Sarah McLachlan and a band of gypsies...
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