Ash Bowie Discography of CDs

Ash Bowie discography As a side project of Superchunk's Mac McCaughan, Portastatic provides an outlet for ideas that would sound out of place on a Superchunk album, and others that would fit right in. Playing by himself for the most part -- ...

Ash Bowie albums While Helium's full-length debut THE DIRT OF LUCK wandered around the deeper crevices and netherworlds of the human soul, its second album THE MAGIC CITY finds Mary Timony's trio exploring an external, mythical world. Wearing its J.R.R. Tolkien influence ...

Ash Bowie discography Lest anyone think Polvo's previous outing, the relatively cohesive TODAY'S ACTIVE LIFESTYLES, was a sign of streamlining to come, CELEBRATE THE DARK AGE opens with the dizzying "Fractured (Like Chandeliers)," which sounds as if they kept the vocals and ...

Ash Bowie albums Released in 2008 on Merge Records, this Portastatic compilation presents two discs of rarities by label founder Mac McCaughan in his non-Superchunk guise. Ranging from 1990 to 2007, the material on SOME SMALL HISTORY embodies the lo-fi side of ...

Ash Bowie CD discography Helping to define the Chapel Hill, North Carolina, indie rock scene along with Superchunk and Archers of Loaf, Polvo displayed some of the slack-jawed passive aggression of those bands, but brought an entirely different sonic agenda to their 1992 ...

Ash Bowie music CDs While not an innovative leap forward from their debut a year before, TODAY'S ACTIVE LIFESTYLES merely cements the formula that confounded and enthralled so many in the first place. Much as the explosive dynamics of guitarists Dave Brylawski and ...

Ash Bowie songs While all of Portastatic's releases are near-brilliant, and most fans would be tempted to start their collections with the LPs that followed Scrapbook, the fact remains that this EP is the sort of work that sets a blueprint for ...

Ash Bowie CD discography Perhaps the most profound difference between Mary Timony's solo debut and her work with Helium lies in the former's sparseness. The songs' basic structures and tenor are the same, but where Helium's music overwhelms the listener with a torrent ...

Ash Bowie music CDs The NO GUITARS EP serves as the perfect musical bridge between THE DIRT OF LUCK and THE MAGIC CITY, possessing much of the dark indie-rock of the former while hinting at the medieval explorations of the latter. While the ...

Ash Bowie songs THE DIRT OF LUCK, Helium's follow-up to its acclaimed EP PIRATE PRUDE, is Mary Timony's descent into the dark recesses of human emotion. From the opening track, "Pat's Trick," on which she sleepily sings "this one is scrawny and ...