Tamaryn - Waves Audio CD

Whereas on 1995's BUILT TO SPILL CAUSTIC RESIN EP, Built to Spill main-man Doug Martsch used a couple of silly premises and a Kicking Giant cover to get to the guitar flamethrowas, on PERFECT FROM NOW ON, Martsch and fellow axe-grinder Brett Netson duel on tunes that could've been some of the loveliest, most inventive, three-minute guitar-pop of the '90s. Could've been, that is, without those fantastic duels. Instead, PERFECT FROM NOW ...

"Are they black?" --Iggy Pop. Formed in 2004 and hailing from the mescaline-infused outskirts of Austin, Texas, this gang of misfits has been on the road non-stop since their birth, performing at such venues as Sin-e, The Empty Bottle, and Spaceland. In early 2006, the band's self-titled debut EP was dubbed highly recommended in Spin Magazine, and received heavy radio airplay on such influential stations as KEXP and BBC Radio 1 by Zane ...

Whether or not Yo La Tengo are being tongue in cheek with the title of their 14th album, POPULAR SONGS does find Hoboken's finest embracing pop song structures with a renewed degree of enthusiasm. This isn't quite the Yo La Tengo "loaded with hits" album, but for a band that's shown an increasing willingness to explore the outer limits of its music in the studio, POPULAR SONGS features nine tunes you can hum ...

Waves songs One of the most remarkable things about Roky Erickson's collaboration with Okkervil River, 2010's True Love Cast Out All Evil, is the simple fact it exists at all. The story of Erickson's long struggle to regain his physical and mental health has been told often enough by now, and even after making a nearly miraculous recovery and returning to the concert stage sounding strong, fiery, and confident, it was anyone's guess if Erickson ...

Waves music CDs The followup to Xuvetyn was even more of a mindblowing blast than Bloweyelashwish, 20 minutes longer and extending the spirit of that album's collision between brute feedback and serene sculpture in astounding directions. More sweetly fragile in points than before, but again never losing that sense of overpowering roar, however restrained at points, Lovesliescrushing created an album as inspired by metapop sprawl as more well-known efforts, like the Flaming Lips' Clouds Taste Metallic, for instance. Cortez here plays a jaw-dropping range of instruments, from any number of guitars -- "prepared guitars," "taped guitars," "guitar damage" -- to metal rulers, forks, and various "misc. devices." With Arpin handling the swooned, haunting vocals, echoing through the seemingly chaotic mix like a siren call from across a bottomless depth -- "Flowered Smother" is a particularly grand example -- the result is a swirling plunge into drowned sound ...