Category Archives: albums

Album Review: of Montreal – “False Priest”

Kevin Barnes and company are back with another album full of arty, psychedelic tunes. This time out they have employed the help of producer Jon Brion to bring us 13 over the top tracks that showcase an affinity for funk … Continue reading

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Album Review: Grand Lake – “Blood Sea Dream”

Oakland’s Grand Lake have presented a debut full-length that is fully formed in its sound, with variance from song to song but without taking huge leaps in genre in an attempt to please everybody. This clearly developed sound is obviously … Continue reading

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More Love for Tokyo Police Club

Since listening to Tokyo Police Club’s latest album “Champ” and reviewing it here I have only grown to love the album more. For a few days I had to listen to it first thing in the morning and then just … Continue reading

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Album Review: Paul A. Rosales – “Wonder Wheel I”

With his debut solo album Paul A. Rosales creates a complex sound world that completely envelopes the listener from first track to last. With an understated guitar pushed to the background behind ever present vintage sounding synths and vocals treated … Continue reading

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Album Review: Hippo Campus – “Glass”

Hippo Campus is the solo project of  Makan Negahban, who also plays with a band called Blips. With the EP “Glass” he has created music that is at once ambient, glitchy, trippy, deep and mysterious. Laden in echo the songs … Continue reading

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Tokyo Police Club – “Champ”

Updated July 28, 2010 with exclusive content from BaebleMusic.com. Scroll to bottom! June 8, 2010 saw the release of the 2nd full-length album by Toronto area band Tokyo Police Club. “Champ” is a big step forward in terms of songwriting … Continue reading

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2010 releases I’m looking forward to

I was recently asked what I have been listening to lately and what releases I was looking forward to. I realized then that most of the things that I am currently listening to came out months ago (some things even … Continue reading

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Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

I know what you are thinking, “This album has been out for almost 2 weeks, we already know how good it is”. This is all true, but I’m trying to catch up with all the things that I want to … Continue reading

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Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors probably have the most easily identifiable and unique sound in Indie Rock today. Dave Longstreth is the man behind the band, which now includes Angel Deradoorian, Amber Coffman and Brian McComber as principal members. Stylistically they are glitchy, … Continue reading

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Sonic Youth – The Eternal

Sonic Youth has been my favorite band since I first heard Dirty in the summer of 1993. I was immediately attracted to what I thought was a very much “anything goes” mentality. The music was (and remains, to a certain … Continue reading

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