Category: slacker rock
Kids On A Crime Spree – Impasto
If there was a label made for lazy, hazy summer evenings it is the venerable Slumberland. And to their heavily notched bedpost they recently added the considerable retro heeled charm of Kids On A Crime Spree. The Spector drenched Swede […]
Sat. Nite Duets – All Nite Long
It’s not exactly an everyday occurrence for the tastemakers at Pitchfork to get scooped on a hip new indie rock band, especially by the mainstream media. That’s exactly what happened when CNN’s John Sepulvado featured Milwaukee’s Sat. Nite Duets in […]
Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything
I picked ‘The Moon & Antarctica’ up in a shoebox in temple bar square and despite absolutely adoring every second it marked both the beginning and end of my flirtation with Modest Mouse. Not sure why, delving further might have […]
Arches – Comin' Back Again
2 college kids from New York called Tommy and Jules explain how they’ve put off their debut 7” due to a lack of readies. Lucky for us then that the interweb stepped in to display their ravishingly languid tales. ‘Comin’ […]
Built To Spill – Now and Then
Boise is home to Built To Spill and most of the other bands from that neck of the woods tend play catch up. It easy to see why because Built To Spill really are a classic sort of band, banging […]
Silver Jews – Trains Across The Sea
‘Starlite Walker’ from Silver Jews came out the same year as Pavement’s seminal ‘Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain’. Probably not that surprising then that songs such as the immaculate ‘Trains Across The Sea’ should have that signature Pavement slacker tone given […]
Appliance – Pacifica
This is a perfectly executed piece of instrumental rock with vocals (huh?). What I mean is ‘Pacifica’ could have operated quite capably without James Brookes deep utterances, as it is his output makes something great even better. The Exeter trio […]
Marmoset – Missing Man
Before you ask Marmoset are new world monkeys, apparently they are a highly active primate. As it happens Marmoset is also the name of a set of 3 cheeky chaps from Indianapolis. For a time it looked like the latter […]
Dinosaur Jr. – Watch The Corners
They appeared before Nirvana and Pearl Jam but I’ve always associated Dinosaur Jr. with that clutch of bands that so defined the early 90′s. In truth their influence has never reached the seismic levels achieved by those other bands but […]