glossary @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Glossary — Feral Fire. Out 2/2, Liberty & Lament. One of my favorite things about Glossary’s sound is the combination of the fuzzed out, grinding guitars with Todd Beene’s sleek, wailing pedal steel and Joey Kneiser’s voice, which might have a whiskey edge but not quite a…
Category: opinions about albums
tim barry — 28th & stonewall
tim barry @ the local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Tim Barry — 28th & Stonewall. Out 1/26, Suburban Home Records. This has been one of my hotly anticipated albums, since Suburban Home started posting press and information about it in the fall; shep. turned me on to Tim Barry last year, for which I…
beach house — teen dream
trekky records christmas at the cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. Beach House — Teen Dream. Out 1/26, Sub Pop. Beach House makes this variety of stripped-down-but-not indie electro-dream-pop that I forget how much I love for long stretches of time. Wow, what a great opening, huh? Anyway: this is a great album. Drifty, vaguely haunting,…
woodpigeon — die stadt muzikanten
lost in the trees @ gerrard hall, originally uploaded by minervacat. Woodpigeon — Die Stadt Muzikanten. Out 1/12/2010, Boompa Records. Ah, the first mystery album of 2010 in my iTunes. Where did this come from? Why did I acquire it? Did I read a review of it somewhere? Did someone put a track on a…
single artist cover albums!
drive-by truckers two-night stand at the cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. This week at work I’m listening to a huge playlist on shuffle; songs rated four or five stars that I haven’t heard in three months. Today, Adam Sandler doing “Werewolves of London” kicked up, and it got me thinking. I love a good cover…
olin & the moon — terrible town
lucero @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. Olin & the Moon — Terrible Town. Out 5/6/2009, self-released. I was turned on to Los Angeles-based indie rockers Olin & the Moon via a free download of their sophomore album, 40 Miles of Bad Road, on ninebullets.net last year. They straddle that line between indie rock…
top 25 albums of 2009
lucero @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. THIS IS A VERY LONG POST ABOUT MUSIC. It’s almost 2010, and so: top 25 albums of 2009, in rough reverse order (#1 is at the bottom!) based on a combination of objective quality and subjective belovedness, according to me:
unc: little snow warriors!
unc: little snow warriors!, originally uploaded by minervacat. We’re having one of those “North Carolina cold snaps”, by which I mean I actually have to run the heat in my car in the mornings on my way to work, not that we’re actually having Cold Weather As Defined By People Who Actually Have Winter. Regardless,…
hundreds of songs i ain’t finished yet
(Apologies if you see this twice; it won’t happen often.) I’ve been making what I call a Christmas mix — that is, not holiday songs but a mix made at the holidays — since 1997; first they were tapes, then for a few years cds, and finally, in the digital age, the last five years…
baltimore: lights on 34th street.
baltimore: lights on 34th street., originally uploaded by minervacat. I don’t have a lot of shame when it comes to music I love; if I like it, I like it, and that’s that. But I have some shame when it comes to this: my favorite Christmas album is not a classic, and it’s not even…
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