If Ariel Pink’s self-defined ‘retrolicious’ musical ventures keep captivating fans and commentators for good reasons, his personal crusade against politically correctness during PR … More
Category: Reviews – English
Lust for Youth – International (Drowned in Sound)
Hannes Norrvide’s Lust for Youth started off as a lo-fi project, with a murky sound loosely indebted to early synth-pop and darkwave. … More
Xiu Xiu – Angel Guts: Red Classroom (Drowned in Sound)
In the amorphous landscape of alternative music, Xiu Xiu stand out as one of the best examples of why thinking through subversion … More
Mutual Benefit – Love’s Crushing Diamond (Drowned in Sound)
We use ‘dreamy’ so much as an adjective that we forget how genuinely dreamy things can actually be. With a … More
Jenny Hval – Innocence is Kinky (Drowned in Sound)
At times when pop music’s projection of the sexualised body is painstakingly scrutinised to measure the state of the music … More
Majical Cloudz – Impersonator (Drowned in Sound)
Majical Cloudz – songwriter Devon Welsh’s project featuring fellow Montreal resident Matthew Otto – made their statement clear with last year’s … More