Ty Segall – Sleeper (Drag City)
By Scott Creney I’ve always liked Ty Segall. Never loved him. Never felt my heartbeat increase when he played, never felt my hands shake when he sang, never felt an emotion when I heard his music.
King Krule – 6 Feet Below The Moon (True Panther/XL)
You can stream the album here. See how long it takes you to stop.
Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus (ATP Recordings)
If 85% of an album is weak dishwater, then it’s a bad album. There’s better ways to spend your time and money.
Hookworms – Pearl Mystic (Weird World)
Hookworms is the bruise on your thigh from a drunken early morning collision with the kitchen table.
John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts (Bella Union)
Pale Green Ghosts is an album as diverse and hilarious, as dying and alive, as life itself. What more could you ask for? Prior approval? Grow up. The music world is a lot bigger than Pitchfork, and there are far more interesting journeys to go on than the path from a publicist’s e-mail to a writer’s inbox.
CocoRosie – Tales Of A GrassWidow (City Slang)
Angela Carter crossed with the newspaper, myth and reality intertwined in a tragic dance. That’s CocoRosie right there.
The Focus Group – The Elektrik Karousel (Ghost Box)
The human brain is pretty much hard-wired on an evolutionary level to romanticize the past. It’s a survival mechanism, one of those things that keeps us going forward into the scary future. Our brain tends to ration out traumatic memories strictly on a need-to-know basis.
The Fall – Re-Mit (Cherry Red)
Re-Mit isn’t a breakthrough by anyone’s standards, but it’s something. It’s another book in the bible of The Fall.
