Sound Exposure

  • Kid-ays: ‘The moment’s already past…’

    Radiohead is a band known for their ability to successfully strive for beauty. When they commit themselves to craft a song that is blatantly gorgeous it is rare that they fail. In Kid A, earlier in the album than you might expect, comes ‘How to Disappear Completely’ one of the quintet’s most poignant exemplars of…

  • Kid-ays: ‘Everyone has got the fear…’

    ‘The National Anthem’ is one song that proves that Radiohead can, even among a dystopian collection of electronic drenched tracks, get funky. And it’s still chillingly alienated funk. The song’s opening bassline is one of the most recognizable intros of any song from the band and even more so its disruptive addition of a brass…

  • Kid-ays: ‘I slipped on a little white lie’.

    After all these years what makes Kid A stand out from Radiohead’s discography it’s the moments in it that haven’t become widely renowned by their faithful fan-base and the general alternative listeners. Songs like ‘Everything In Its Right Place’, ‘Idioteque’ and ‘The National Anthem’ are today, quintessentially Radiohead. ‘Kid A’ in the other hand it’s…

  • Kid-Ays: ‘What is that you tried to say?’

    In the first year of this blog, Radiohead’s Ok Computer celebrated its 20th year of existence and I made a major feature in which I wrote a song-by-song review every Friday up to the anniversary of its release, which landed on a Friday, (Editor’s note: ‘On a Friday’ is the original name of Radiohead. Funny,…

  • Canción Animal by Soda Stereo – Essentiality Review

    “Oh, so you DO like music in Spanish?“ I definitely would expect my readers to ask that question. Also some skeptics certainly would claim that writing about one of the most famous albums of Latin rock, by one of the most recognized Latin American bands isn’t actually commendable when it comes to show interest for…

  • Women In Music Pt. III by Haim – Review

    Este, Danielle and Alana Haim are arguably Los Angeles stalwarts by now. Their presence in the city’s scene (and the world’s pop scenario) is already well established. From the music point of view, the road to that status has been quite satisfactory, but at the same time their affectionate and bright personalities have made them…

  • High Violet by The National – Essentiality Review

    With all that’s happening I feel like January was a long time ago. A month rendered in our minds as we looked forward to a new decade ignoring how our lives would change in the following months. And it was around that time I published my lists of favorite music from the past decade, and…

  • Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple – Review

    “Shameikah said I had potential”, croons Fiona Apple in ‘Shameikah’, a song where she describes how she hasn’t forget what the entitled person told her when she was being bullied in school. Listening to Apple’s discography, from 1996’s Tidal to the The Idler Wheel… in 2012, and now Fetch The Bolt Cutters certainly confirms that…

  • The New Abnormal by The Strokes – Review

    During most of the 2010s there was a tacit discussion going on when it came to new music from The Strokes. Shall we expect good The Strokes’ songs? Or good songs from The Strokes? For bands with a legacy so explicit as the one the NYC luminaries have to be measured against practically all of…

  • Gigaton by Pearl Jam – Review

    I honestly didn’t think that I would find myself doing this in 2020. Neither reviewing a Pearl Jam album or maintaining myself isolated because of a global pandemic. Anyway, there’s two reasons why I bring the first fact to your attention: one, for a considerable period of time in my adolescence, Pearl Jam was my…

  • Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee – Review

    Katie Crutchfield, aka Waxahatchee, has always slipped through my fingers. Listening to her albums (mainly 2015’s Ivy Tripp and 2017’s Out In The Storm) is like having a conversation with someone interesting about a subject you barely know of, and despite how much attention you pay to the other person you don’t remember anyhting about…

  • Painter In Your Pocket by Destroyer – An Ode To An Ode

    For a while in 2015, for me, there was nothing but this song. I listened to it shortly after I listened , for the first time, Destroyer, a Canadian-based project led by singer-songwriter Dan Bejar. 2006’s Destroyer’s Rubies was the second album I enjoyed from what is now one of my favorite bands of the…

  • Everything Hits At Once by Spoon – An Ode to An Ode

    Introducing a new segment for Sound Exposure that will consist in a review of a random song from any band, artist, year, album, genre or country that comes to my mind in a particular moment. I start with the first song I ever heard of one of the most consistent bands in 21st century rock.…

  • The Main Thing by Real Estate – Review

    Throughout the last decade Real Estate lived in a world of their own. This New Jersey quartet’s pristine melodies and delightful rhythms are truly unparalleled in the indie rock universe. Unsurprsingly, since their 2009 debut, they’ve maintained their status making them relatable and yet, at the same time, they can surprise you with each release.…

  • And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out by Yo La Tengo – Essentiality Review

    I don’t want to scare you, but the year 2000 was 20 years ago. In 1997 the indie-rock auteurs from Hoboken, New Jersey reached what many considered their artistic peak. Their record I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One is a masterful compilation of indie-rock songs that tries to take on many forms of…