Apr 9, 2013 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
“At the start of post-rock, Simon Reynolds coined the term to highlight the technical innovativeness of a particular set of bands and it worked. Music history doesn’t highlight this, but Slint’s Spiderland and Nirvana’s Nevermind were both released in 1991. One...
Apr 9, 2013 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
“I’m not exactly sure why but for whatever reason I mistakenly had Apricot Rail pegged as a hard-hitting guitar-driven outfit. That impression was quickly set right when I put on the Perth-based sextet’s sophomore outing Quarrels and was presented...
Apr 9, 2013 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
“For this listener, Markus Mehr’s Off is unquestionably the most satisfying part of the trilogy that began with In and On. Using computer, synthesizers, processed guitars, piano, and distortion pedals, the German experimental ambient artist has constructed...
Apr 9, 2013 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
“In July of last year, I reviewed Markus Mehr’s On album here at DOA, the second part of the trilogy of albums that Off is the final section of. On is a tremendously varied and imaginative sequence of tracks, varying from ambient soundscapes to haphazardly...
Mar 18, 2013 | Liam Singer Reviews, Reviews
“Queens-based chamber pop artist Liam Singer delivers another deliriously beautiful adventure in song composition, filled with angelic choirs, tripping xylophone, thudding double bass and solemn notes of cello. This tune, for fans of Patrick Watson, Sufjan...
Mar 18, 2013 | Liam Singer Reviews, Reviews
“Gifted and accessible, Liam Singer is the kind of musician for whom Fingertips exists. We are assaulted by endless sound, we are inundated by generic, laptop-fueled creations, we have abandoned meaning for virality and melody for sensation, and yet even here,...
