June 4, 2008

Bauhaus Go Away White [4.5/5] Since their late-’70s formation, Bauhaus have put their personal spin on genres so disparate, the reverberations are still felt today. With the release of Go Away White, the band have maintained artistic integrity where many of their post-punk colleagues (and followers) became burned-out cinders of their former selves. Go Away...

The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride [4.5/5] Mountain Goats records are notorious for their thematic cohesion and harrowing catharses, which range from the minutiae of a painful breakup (2006’s Get Lonely) and geographic absurdities (2002’s All Hail West Texas) to abuse head Goat John Darnielle suffered growing up (2005’s The Sunset Tree). But Heretic Pride succeeds...

Able Baker Fox Voices [4/5] There was much rejoicing when in 2002, two rough-hewn emotional punk acts, Small Brown Bike and the Casket Lottery, finally celebrated their mutual admiration on a collaborative EP. Containing three SBB members and one from the Casket Lottery (including the main vocalists of both groups), Able Baker Fox construct the...