About the same time when Peter Bjorn And John’s Young Folks started to circulate outside indie circles and its whistling became a minor international sensation, Shout Out Louds emerged with Tonight I Have To Leave It. The year was 2007 and the two bands became part of the top tier of Swedish music export, cementing [...]
Monthly Archives: juni 2011
Mutsumi – Let’s Get Sick
Before Alice Glass became indie queen of being fucked up. Before Gaga came along and wore clothes that made her look mental. Before electro and punk started hanging out more frequently. Mutsumi Kanamori a.k.a. MU was the absolute shit. She still is. It’s un freaking believable that since her groundbreaking 2003 debut album Afro Finger [...]
The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing
The Drums are quite cheeky to be so hip. They’re in the middle of indie pop’s most beloved snake pit where bands slither around each other trying to get the attention and playtime. At first, when their eponymous debut album dropped last year, I felt like their music was a bit calculated and feather light [...]
Owen Pallett – Lewis Takes Off His Shirt
There are many things about the man they call Owen Pallett confounding and fascinating me. It might be the music. It might be him being musically very talented and a string arranger for bands such as Arcade Fire and Pet Shop Boys. It might be him being into Dungeons & Dragons and, obviously, Final Fantasy. [...]
Track by track review of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way (Special Edition)
I have quite a few friends wondering what I think about Lady Gaga’s monumental new album, Born This Way. At first I thought it was a little odd that they were so interested that they’d ask me for my opinion, especially considering it’s Gaga, who makes pretty straightforwardly mainstream pop music, we’re talking about and [...]
