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Review: The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt

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In his second full length album, The Wild Hunt, Kristian Matsson (A.K.A.) The Tallest Man on Earth, sticks to the sparse instrumentation and alternatively detached and affected vocals of his debut, Shallow Grave. Oscillating between calm, restrained singing and swells of emotive howling seems to have become a staple of folk singer/songwriters like Matsson. Conor Oberst (Bright eyes) is known specifically for this kind of performance, but while Oberst often accompanies his vocal outbursts with indulgent, instrumental flourishes, Matsson doesn’t need keening strings, blaring synths, or pummeling drums to augment his most chillingly powerful deliveries.
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REVIEW: Local Natives – Gorilla Manor

I really have no idea how to write record reviews.

I had pretty low expectations for Local Natives “gorilla manor”. After reading pitchfork’s review I got the impression that they were going to be just another ‘acoustic indie rock’ band…a sort of fleet foxes meets grizzly bear (neither of which I’m particularly crazy about). I was wrong I was right.

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Surfer Blood//Actually not that bad

Over the past year I’ve become increasingly skeptical of anything labeled as pitchforks “best new music”. When Its a band I like, I’m worried because pitchfork hates nearly every band I like, and when its a hype band Read the rest of this entry »

REVIEW: Wisdom Tooth – Cathedral Park.

wisdom tooth - cathedral park

“I’m waiting for the drugs to wear off / I’m waiting for the medicine to kick in/ I’m waiting for the summer to be endlessly promising again” sings 21 year old Oberlin, Ohio resident Meagan Day on album opener “Cathedral park”. Lyrics that recall Letting off the happiness-era bright eyes, talk-sung in a voice that sounds a lot like early Mirah, if not without its own distinct lilt; “I’m eternally splitting at the seems/with the way that my favorite singer sings/ with the feeling that the perfect sad song brings”.

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