2004 October | one times one
opinions were like kittens i was giving them away. -modest mouse
there's nothing as something as one. -e. e. cummings

      Landed, an LP by producer turned singer / songrocker Peter Walker, is hosted by a bevy of talent on both sides of the studio window and contains some ear catching tunes but ultimately lives under the scope’s lens of what has already been done by its pot stirrers. Alongside of Walker here sits a [...]

OTO Rating: 6/10
      Over the past few weeks I have had a love/hate relationship with Magnet’s On Your Side, which has just seen release stateside on Filter Magazine’s newly formed record label, Filter US Recordings. Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Even Johansen, aka Magnet, hails from Bergen, Norway, supposedly the rainiest city in Europe. Johansen is a [...]

OTO Rating: 9/10
      Paul Westerberg is certainly one of the best songwriters of my generation, or, of any generation for that matter. The long list of classic songs he has written is a testament to this ability, and he is arguably one of the most imitated artists of our time. Since the demise of The [...]