Review/Listen: Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits
On A Thing Called Divine Fits, Divine Fits set aside their egos for something far more pure, making for an attentive listen overall.
Tag Archives: Wolf Parade
[Album Review/Listen] – Moonface – “Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped”
Spenser Krug’s new Moonface album is not for the faint of heart. Listeners expecting the intellectual pop of early Wolf Parade or Sunset Rubdown’s “Dragonslayer” will be sorely disappointed. Krug has ditched his major projects once again to follow his lust for the arcane. Those willing to following him into the rabbit hole will be [...]
[Album Review/Listen] – Handsome Furs – “Sound Kapital”
Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl | MP3 | CD Dan Boeckner has grown increasingly political in his outings with Handsome Furs, the dance-rock duo he formed with his wife after achieving success with Wolf Parade. While the group’s first album, “Plague Park”, was a series of sparsely-arranged tales of loss and restlessness, they [...]
[Listen/Download] – New Song By Handsome Furs – “What About Us”
I showed up a couple of years late to the Handsome Furs party, discovering them somehow back in 2009 around the time that their second album “Face Control” was being released, and for me, as a first time listener, I had it repeating on a daily basis for weeks. Consisting of Dan Boeckner from Wolf [...]
[Flashback] – Red House Painters – “Old Ramon”
One of the fundamental goals of running a music blog is to introduce people to new music. The primary method of doing this is to highlight new releases, either via up and coming bands that show potential or tried-and-true musical mainstays that generally please the masses. Lost in this growing blogging race are the building [...]
[Listen] – #MusicMonday – 20 Songs Of The Week – August 9th
If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too. Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted by [...]
[Listen] – #MusicMonday – 20 Songs Of The Week – May 31st
If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too. Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted by [...]
[Listen/Download] Two Brand New Songs By Wolf Parade
I’ll admit that I never got into Wolf Parade as much as what seems like everyone else did, but these two new songs are inescapably good. They’re both from their upcoming album “Expo 86″ due out via SubPop on June 29th. If the rest of the album is this good, I may just have to [...]
