In the most recent issue of The New Yorker, peerless pop music writer Sasha Frere-Jones mentions the great number of indie bands that (in his words) "have found vitality in massed vocal arrangements that sometimes have little to do with rock." Frere-Jones drops the name of blog-approved artists like St. Vincent, Bon Iver and Sufjan [...]
Papercuts - You Can Have What You Want (Gnomonsong) reviewed by Robert Ham Papercuts On his third album using the name Papercuts, Jason Quever continues his strange and beautiful love affair with the music of the 1960s. This time around, though, his songs feel covered over with gauze or a thick patina of reverb and the reedy [...]
Karin Dreijer Andersson The debut album by Karin Dreijer Andersson - playing under the name Fever Ray - has a particularly unhinged, woozy sound to it - a fact that should surprise no one who is familiar with Andersson's work as a member of The Knife. Both outfits lean their electronic-based sounds towards elusive, yet enrapturing [...]
Why is it that electronic pop seems to work so brilliantly for groups with limited membership? There are fine exceptions to this idea, but generally, the best work tends to come from folks working solo or adhering to the now-classic set up: one person handles all the loops, blurts and atmospherics, the other person takes [...]
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