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Category Archives: Album Reviews
Album Review: Stray Kites
Stray Kites – Mieux (2011, self-released) I’ve found this to be true: lo-fi twee bedroom pop can be polarizing. I love the stuff, much of the time . . . for sure, the genre is littered with a lot of … Continue reading
Album Review: The Foghorns – To the Stars on the Wings of a Pig
The Foghorns – To the Stars on the Wings of a Pig (2011, Knick Knack Records) Count this review as another in a long line of conflicts of interest here at the Blog ‘o Wax. The Foghorns are a Seattle … Continue reading
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Album Review: Klak Tik – Must We Find a Winner
Klak Tik – Must We Find a Winner (2010, Safety First Records) Klak Tik’s textured Must We Find a Winner has a distinct taste for the theatrical, majestically carried out for just under an hour. The London-based band have produced … Continue reading
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Album Review: Shenandoah Davis – The Company We Keep
Shenandoah Davis – The Company We Keep (2011, self-released) Shenandoah Davis is a Ball of Wax alumnus (see volumes 16 and 18). In fact, she’s the first example I point to for the beauty of the concept of such a … Continue reading
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Album Review: Carlos Forster – Family Trees
Carlos Forster – Family Trees (2011, HUSH Records) Carlos Forster once led a fantastic, woefully unheralded band called For Stars, about which I’ve written wistfully elsewhere. It’s been 7 years since the release of For Stars’ swan song, It Falls Apart, … Continue reading
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[glocal scene] Album Review: Keith Haman – Camera
Keith Haman – Camera (2011, Melotone) Keith Haman hails from Oceanside, California, but resides in New York City, where he is now releasing albums with Brooklyn label/rehearsal studio Melotone. I’ve met Keith before, playing with the now defunct alt-country band … Continue reading
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Album Review: Can The Boy Tell Time – Tunia
Can the Boy Tell Time – Tunia (2011, self-released) Tunia is the kindly face-melting new album from Seattle band Can The Boy Tell Time. This music is by no means easy to describe, but I am eager to try. But … Continue reading
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Album Review: Man Man
Man Man – Self-titled EP (2004, Ace Fu Records) I got to see Philadelphia’s Man Man at New York’s Mercury Lounge in 2004.* Their set was a spectacle — everyone on stage was an excellent player, each attending to his own intricate … Continue reading
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Album Review: Jack Shriner – Dismember/Remember
Jack Shriner – Dismember/Remember (2011, Self-Released) On Dismember/Remember, Seattle-based Jack Shriner (as heard on Ball of Wax volumes 12 and 17) augments some pretty classic pop song conventions with smatterings of fuzz, synth outbursts and largely interesting instrumental asides. Opener … Continue reading
Album Review: Southerly – Champion of the Noisy Negativists
Southerly – Champion of the Noisy Negativists (2011, Greyday Records) Another Southerly review? What is this, Southerly central? I swear, there’s a good reason for this. Let me explain. Those of you who headed out to the Sunset expecting a … Continue reading
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