Max Hill
Wondrous Bughouse is slightly motheaten
March 18, 2013Youth Lagoon's second effort doesn't quite live up to the first By Max Hill Wondrous Bughouse, Trevor Powers’ second album under his Youth Lagoon moniker, marks a dramatic departure from his 2011 debut, The Year of Hibernation: where the former was intimate, tender and warm, Powers’ sophomore effort is ambitious, experimental and purposeful. However, though Wondrous Bughouse is undoubtedly a capable effort from a talented young musician with patches of the brilliance his fans have come to anticipate, it fails to live up to the grandiose expectations set by its predecessor, substituting style for substance and performance for emotion. The…
Continue reading
The sun rises on a new Bowie
March 10, 2013By Max Hill The Next Day is reminiscent of David Bowie's golden days The successful rock and roll comeback is a rare and serendipitous thing — after 10 years of absence from the music scene, and 20 years previous…
Continue reading
My Bloody Valentine returns
February 24, 2013Highly anticipated m b v suggested there's more to come By Max Hill m b v, My Bloody Valentine’s first full-length release in 22 years, might never escape the gargantuan shadow cast by its enduring, influential predecessor, Loveless. Naturally, it’s…
Continue reading
Top Ten Albums 2012
January 6, 2013The best music makers of the past year By Max Hill 10. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes Fans of Steven Ellison’s last album under his Flying Lotus moniker, Cosmogramma, might have been disappointed on first listen of Until…
Continue reading
good kid, m.A.A.d city, great album
November 26, 2012By Max Hill good kid, m.A.A.d. city is punctuated by the voicemail messages its 17-year-old protagonist receives. His mother prays for him and tempers her disappointment with the hope that he’ll grow out of his adolescent flirtations with gang…
Continue reading
5 new artists you should be listening to
November 5, 2012By Max Hill Death Grips Genre: Experimental, hip-hop | Tracks: “Hacker”, “Get Got”, “Deep Web” It seems like Death Grips have been everywhere in 2012: they released their debut studio album The Money Store earlier this year to critical acclaim…
Continue reading
Deerhoof playfully brushes off Breakup
September 17, 2012Breakup Song just wants to keep dancing. By Max Hill Advertising their new album as “noise jingles for parties,” Deerhoof doesn’t disappoint. Indeed, 2012’s Breakup Song is as close to a dance record as the group is going to get. It’s…
Continue reading
- « Previous
- 1
- …
- 9
- 10
- 11
- Next »
