onefinemess | June 22, 2010
I admit, the first song threw me. The chorus is a bit forced. It is. It sounds a little like they had a cool phrase (“American Slang”) and tried to write a song around it. Not that there’s anything wrong with that — plenty of songs are written that way. But it doesn’t quite work [...]
onefinemess | May 13, 2010
How crazy is it that this is The Hold Steady’s 5th album? Just another way for time to make me feel old I guess. I think some of the age may be showing on their part too… but more on that later. Nevermind, let’s just hit it now: the album is good, but I think [...]
onefinemess | March 25, 2010
Alkaline Trio : This Addiction — I think it’s not as cheesy-bad as the previous one, but portions still verge on self-caricature (Draculina). AT3 frequently treads dangerously close towards self-caricature land, so this is no big surprise. The guitar work sounds a little poppier, cleaner even and there is even a song with horns. If [...]
onefinemess | November 18, 2009
Kinda rushed, not worth much more. Track by track with poor capitalization & punctuation because much of it was done one handed while holding a child, then a summary: Arrow – pop gem potential, fucked up by artsy clanky experimentalism. Hear that mechanical clanky distortion at the beginning? That’s a sign of the worst of [...]
onefinemess | August 25, 2009
to make music with, in order to make music that interests me. Ok, this is not entirely true – I did like A.M., which was produced in between Jays (post-Farrar/Uncle Tupelo, pre-Bennett). Speaking of, I think A.M. bears a decent amount in common with the current release (Wilco (the album)) – both seem to be, [...]
onefinemess | May 23, 2009
Contrary to what Rolling Stone says, at least. IMHO. YMMV. vs. Here’s a couple, completely subjective, ways in which I know this. I’ve only made it through 21st Century in its entirety like once. The rest in pieces. And, tellingly, I never have any particular urge to finish it once I start. Idiot on the [...]
onefinemess | February 26, 2009
WTF is up with the new Common album? I tried to listen to it again, skipped the first three songs, then went to something else entirely different. The beats really annoy me, and the songs seem especially trivial. There are some good rhymes in there but..ugg. “Sex 4 Suga”. Really? Is he becoming more like [...]
onefinemess | January 14, 2009
As in Airborne Toxic Event. I think I actually heard them first on the radio, then tracked them down online. Very cool. Like the National meets Arctic Monkeys with the bitter wit of Pulp. Kinda. Anyway, here’s some stuff to check: The video of the first song I heard “Sometime Around Midnight”: I only remembered [...]
onefinemess | December 10, 2008
Have I blogged about these guys before? I’m sure I must have, because I really like them. Anyway, on to the album. We have an interesting situation here in the sense that I’m actually going to recommend buying something where every song isn’t awesome. Now, none of them are bad mind you, but some do [...]
onefinemess | December 3, 2008
What the hell happened to the new Bloc Party album? Somewhere between the solid 8-10s of the previous two, the knob must have busted and spiraled back to -3. Seriously, try and listen to the first two songs all the way through. Head into a music store with a listening booth, borrow it from a [...]
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