I finally have a moment with my feet up by the fire after a busy, but happy holiday sprint. Hoping that all of you had a fantastic holiday with a chance to spend time with family and loved ones!
High, dry and cold.
Wish I had brought my good camera this morning. The steam off the lake looks amazing.
The Christmas Car is loaded!
Album Review: 12 Shades of Brown by Junior Brown - 3 out of 5
There is very little modern country that doesn’t cause my ears to bleed. I think it mostly comes from a notion that in order to be good, country music must be something more than top-40 pop tunes sung through the nose. An artist that gets this, in a wonderful way, is consummate honky-tonk master Junior Brown.
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I don't know why, but cool, but cloudy days just demand Thai food for lunch.
Album Review: 12 Desperate Straight Lines by Telekinesis - 2 out of 5
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then 12 Desperate Straight Lines is surely a huge monument of devotion to other bands. I feel mixed on how to critique this album in so far that it’s actually a pretty darn catchy pop rock album with nice hooks and a light airy melodies that make you want to tap your feet.
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Album Review: 11:11 by Regina Spektor - 3 out of 5
Regina Spektor is a recent pop obsession of mine. I first discovered her from some radio play from her 2004 Soviet Kitsch album. Since then I have amassed all of her albums and remain a dedicated fan. 11:11 is not Regina Spektor’s strongest album, but rarely are first albums the best albums. However, it already demonstrates a strong, quirky songwriting talent and shows off her incredible vocal range.
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Album Review: 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours by Green Day - 2 out of 5
From a recent favorite album to an album of my ever-increasingly distant youth. I purchased this album in a small record shop in Boston while visiting Harvard for a disastrous debate tournament my senior year of high school. I’m pretty sure that Dookie had probably already hit the airwaves by the time of the trip or I doubt I would have heard of Green Day considering that my musical diet at the time was a strict combination of grunge and rockabilly.
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Album Review: +/- by Buke and Gass(Gase) - 4 out of 5
So I do that long rant about reviewing albums that I haven’t heard before and then I start with one of my favorite albums of recent years for the first review. The alphabet can be a real pain sometimes. In any case, Buke and Gass (now Buke and Gase) was a band I discovered through the fabulous NPR show Radiolab. Buke and Gase consists of Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez who play their homemade instruments including a Buke which is a baritone ukulele and a Gass which is a guitar-bass concoction. With these monsters of the junkyard, comes a captivating, driving cacophony of fantastic noise.
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