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Old 04-28-2014, 10:22 PM   #20722 (permalink)
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Nobunny - Secret Songs: Reflections From Ear Mirror. Garage rock/power pop. Hilarious album cover, filled with silly, youthful garage rock songs about high school girls and smoking weed. Not very gripping, though.



Eels - Wonderful, Glorious. Indie rock. Good album, for some reason I want to suggest it for fans of Silver Jews. Peach Blossom is a rad song.



The Men - New Moon. Garage rock. This album is in a lot of my current rotation. Frankly, as a post-hardcore/noise rock band, I could do without The Men, but this album really brings songwriting to the forefront, and it's awesome. Glad I didn't write them off after two albums that left me unfeeling for them.



CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe. Synth pop/electropop. I must say I expected a great deal more from this after all the praise and popularity they've received in the last year, but I was not remarked upon at all. It's really just girlish indie pop, all songs blending together, nothing new being accomplished. Meh.



Rilo Kiley - RKIVES. Indie pop. A compilation album, and it shows. Really patchy, lots of completely forgettable B-sides drowning out a couple of interesting tracks which were probably too aggressively creative to fit into a regular Rilo Kiley tracklist. And holy crap, the Dejalo remix is just offensive.



BRAIDS - Flourish//Perish. Art pop/dream pop. After Native Speaker (Bjork meets neo-psychedelia), I'd expected some sort of watered-down rehashment, but I was pleasantly surprised by the growth here, and I might like this even more than their first album. Worth looking into if you need a gray, misty pop album.



Mikal Cronin - MCII. Garage rock/power pop, I think? Honestly I remember very little of this. It's just very pale and forgettable. This album makes me think I only need a single Mikal Cronin album (his self-titled) to have heard them all.



Pity Sex - Feast of Love. Indie rock/shoegaze. This is basically a stepping stone into shoegaze from 00's pop punk. Some catchy tunes, but the adolescent vocals are slightly off-putting.



Weezer - Pinkerton. Power pop/indie rock. BLUE ALBUM PREVAILS.



Mac DeMarco - Salad Days. Jangle pop. I love 2, but this was just not woozy or lazy enough to satisfy what drew me to his last album. Passable, but far from impressive.
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