Listen Before You Buy

“I Am Gemini” is a divisive release, even among Cursive fans: some think it’s Cursive at their very best, others couldn’t be more disappointed. Hopefully you’ll find yourself in the former group, but unfortunately I’m squarely in the latter.

Cursive gets all sorts of early nineties quasi-punk garage-pop on their new track “The Sun And The Moon.”

Photo © Olivia Themudo It took me all of about five seconds of listening to Star Commander to be sold. Their debut album “The World Was Sinking & I Was Hardly Surprised” opens with one of the nicer guitar riffs I’ve heard recently, but don’t let your guard down: this isn’t bland vanilla rock. Sure, “Leave Her [...]

One of the great indie rock institutions, Bright Eyes, is set to release “The People’s Key”, its first new album in nearly four years, via Saddle Creek on February 15, 2011. That is the incendiary cover art above. In order to whet everyone’s appetite for quavering vocal lines and borderline-histrionic vocals, Bright Eyes has released [...]