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

      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 a [...]