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Oct 16 2006
OTO Rating: 6/10
The Walkmen, like the Brian Jonestown Massacre, have becoming famous for not becoming famous. They’ve put out two albums of competent garage-pop, one brilliant single (“The Rat”), and if you mentioned them to the man on the street he’d probably tell you to get an ipod. So it’s only natural for these [...]
Oct 10 2006
OTO Rating: 4/10
Track listing:
01 Futures
02 Throw It All Away
03 Seeing Things
04 The Pageant Of The Bizarre
05 You’re My Flame
06 Left Behind
07 Today
08 This Fine Social Scene
09 Your Place
10 If I Can’t Have You
11 Crosses
12 Waiting To Die
The much maligned Zero 7 are probably unworthy of their bad reputation in the indie crowd – okay, so [...]
Oct 10 2006
OTO Rating: 8/10
Country music is generally associated with straightforward, honest talk and humble stories of woe. So, naturally, Shelley Short decides to buck the trend once again with this, her sophomore album after 2003’s Say Little Dogies, Why?. And it couldn’t be further from a slump. Instead Captain Wild Horse is an eerie, sophisticated, [...]
Oct 06 2006
OTO Rating: 8/10
The Panda Band, a clump of Australians towing a jagged procession of musical linearity, seem to know nothing of the word “reservation.” Their songs wail with feverish abandon and trample over sonic expectations like a monster truck in a china shop. It is this type of charge that leads their fearless debut, This [...]