Skinny Puppy
Skinny Puppy Mythmaker [3.5/5] The same old ideas, and a few new ones: This is the sound of Skinny Puppy in 2007. The Ogre/cEvin Key team has mostly abandoned the abstraction that marked their sonic peak on Too Dark Park and Last Rights, two albums that came out in 1990 and 1991, respectively. This disc...
LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver [3/5] In 2005, LCD Soundsystem’s self-titled debut housed the perfect mix of dance-beat percolations, synth-rock exercises and chairman James Murphy’s wry ruminations-and this is why Sound Of Silver is merely okay. Tracks like “North American Scum” and “All My Friends” (where his vocal sounds as though he’s fronting a Killers...
Brother Ali
Brother Ali The Undisputed Truth [3.5/5] You have to root for a guy who can turn all his physical quirks-from albinism to a lazy eye-into a feel-good anthem like 2003’s “Forest Whitaker.” There’s no similar knockout blow on Brother Ali’s third album, The Undisputed Truth, but hip-hop’s Whitest Great Hope should certainly lure more fans...