2006 March | one times one
opinions were like kittens i was giving them away. -modest mouse
there's nothing as something as one. -e. e. cummings

OTO Rating: 4/10      As an indie rock fan, you’re probably feeling pretty conflicted these days, aren’t you? What are you supposed to think? On one hand, it seems as if the music you love more than anything else in the world is finally getting the attention you’ve known all along it deserves: the White [...]

      Nine Black Alps: with a name borrowed from a Sylvia Plath poem, you’d expect some dark, soul-searching pondering best suited for a dark corner with a Smiths album. But, to my pleasant surprise, the boys from the Alps are not only clever and engaging, but also make some rather kickass rock music. And they [...]

OTO Rating: 8/10       How unfashionable, really. To, in an age dominated by angular art rock, suddenly turn the clock back to 1993 and put out an album of grunge-punk not heard since Seattle’s heyday. To the scenesters it should be heresy, to the journalists (so swept up in ‘The New Britpop’) it should receive [...]