Sep 16 2009

David Bazan – Curse Your Branches

Category: Music In My Earsdryvetyme @ 12:00

Huzzah! The newly updated and fresh-faced Burnside Writers Collective has posted my review of Curse Your Branches, the new record from David Bazan.

Curse Your Branches

Go read my review first, and then make your way around the new BWC. It’s nice and shiny, as well as a major step forward for the site’s direction. These are the folks who gave me my first crack at being a music critic, so I’m a bit indebted to them for the trust they’ve always shown in my words.

David Bazan

And once you’re finished there, you should check out this excellent piece on David Bazan by the amazing, inimitable Jessica Hopper.


Sep 16 2009

The Big Pink – A Brief History Of Love

Category: Music In My Earsdryvetyme @ 07:00

The Big Pink
A Brief History Of Love
4AD; 2009

A Brief History Of Love

The Internet can be a dangerous place, filled with big, heady dreams ready to be crushed by the stark, grim face of reality. All it takes is one tiny twinge of notoriety to peek through the constant crush of information for someone to feel that they are finally someone and ready to take over the world. In the case of The Big Pink, two gentlemen who have already helped others fulfill their electro-clash dreams, having your lead single from your not-quite-yet-released full-length debut album named by Pitchfork as one of the 500 Best Songs of the 2000’s is quite an accolade, one crammed with seemingly endless promise. Yet, despite the fact that “Velvet” is an amazingly strong and enticing track, the whole of A Brief History Of Love doesn’t quite support its potential.
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