Tag: Review
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Ignorance by The Weather Station – Review
‘Robber’ was an inflection point for my 2020. There was a before and an after. Only a few songs have the ability to shapeshift an entire flow of events with one listen. ‘Robber’ is one of them. Released as a standalone single and later revealed as the first track of the fifth record by The…
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Vertigo Days by The Notwist – Review
There was a period of time around 2009 that was very formative for me when it came to discovering and establishing my music interests and leanings. Severely dominated by alternative rock, every discovery I added to my iPod came by way of friendly recommendations, alternative music blogs and movies. However, additional to the Bon Ivers,…
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The Ascension by Sufjan Stevens – Review
Despite releasing proper LP’s every 5 years since 2005, Sufjan Stevens never stops. He puts out many music in the period between albums, and the last five years weren’t the exception. This fact makes you wonder how he creates a piece of work as coherent and accomplished as his past records, while working in many…
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Shore by Fleet Foxes – Review
Although relating the music of an artist directly to a particular season would greatly undermine its inherent value, there’s no denying that there are songs and albums that can be enjoyed differently whether it’s hot or cold outside. There’s a reason summer playlists exist. Fleet Foxes for me have always been a perfect fall/winter season…
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Kid A by Radiohead – Essentiality Review
Succintly is not a way someone could describe Radiohead’s career; one of the most succesful and well-renowned bands of the 21st century. Trying to do it with Kid A certainly isn’t an easy task either. Anyway, I’ll try: The fourth album of the Oxford quintet is the one left-turn of an already beloved rock band…
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Gold Record by Bill Callahan – Review
Few solo music careers go back 30 years. In any other context, this would’ve been a remarkable feat, but in 2020 it reaches god-like proportions. Who would actually have the energy, after 20 albums released, to keep making music at the twilight of a decade filled with social turmoil and a year that has strengthen…
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Kid-ays: ‘This beautiful world…’
‘In Limbo’ despite being sonically wider, sounds more like an interlude than ‘Treefingers’. It treads the same territory that ‘Faust Arp’ would, 7 years later on ‘In Rainbows’. That specific trait may have something to do with the fact that the song lands between the two most recognized songs in Kid A. I once read…
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Kid-ays: ‘Float around on a prison ship…’
After a compelling start, Kid A reaches a more straightforward approach in the middle. That’s not to say it gets boring, quite the opposite, the next two songs check even more boxes when it come to adding sounds to the album. However they way they do it is uniquely simple. ‘Treefingers’ is the outlier amongst…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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.…
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Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Essentiality Review
Here’s one simple and kind of dumb thought I had about jazz one time: ‘If music was a circle, then jazz would be the point where that circle starts and ends’. Mathematically circles don’t have beginnings or ends though, so, was I thinking of popular music history as if someone was drawing a circle and…
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The National/Mexico City/October 16th 2019
While I was waiting in line to see, arguably, my favorite band right now, one interesting thought came into my mind: Why is all this people coming to see The National? It’s not that they’re not popular enough for people in Mexico to be interested in them. Simply, how can a band that makes music…
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Abbey Road by The Beatles – Essentiality Review
50 years. Half a century. Everything that needs to be said about The Beatles and their 11th album, Abbey Road has been said. The facts about its recording process, the story of a one-of-a-kind band that was coming to an end, the mixed reception of the finished product, the theories surrounding each song, the creation of the…