Robert Ham

Contributions

Birds Of Avalon - Birds Of Avalon

Birds Of Avalon Birds Of Avalon   The release of this album must come with a huge sigh of relief from Birds Of Avalon. The North Carolina-based quintet finished tracking the LP back in the early part of 2009. Thankfully, time hasn't dulled the impact of their work on this stunning work. The self-titled disc […]

Dntel - After Parties 2 EP

Dntel After Parties 2 EP   At first blush, it doesn’t make much sense why Jimmy Tamborello—recording under the name Dntel—would want to split up the eight new songs he has to offer. A full-length could have easily been made out of the two halves of both volumes of After Parties. Listen to both EPs enough […]

Dntel - After Parties 1 EP

Dntel After Parties 1 EP   Jimmy Tamborello has spent much of the last 10 years in collaboration mode. As one half of the Postal Service, he and Ben Gibbard struck a deep, resonating chord with thousands of kids who wished they could dance and used lines from “Some Great Heights” in their mash notes. […]

Depressed Buttons - Qwerty EP

Depressed Buttons Qwerty EP   Considering the delicious tension that runs through the music of the Faint as they try to reconcile the worlds of wiry indie rock and electronica, the appearance of a side project by three members of that band—Todd Fink, Clark Baechle and Jacob Thiele—where they flex their dance music muscles is […]

Bedouin Soundclash - Light The Horizon

Bedouin Soundclash Light The Horizon   The last few years have been both cruel and kind to Bedouin Soundclash. The reggae/world-music trio saw some incredible chart successes in their home country of Canada and in the U.K. with 2007’s Street Gospels, culminating in nominations for several Junos (the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy), and several […]

There For Tomorrow - Re:Creations EP

There For Tomorrow Re:Creations EP   Remixes are tricky propositions, especially for a band whose music isn't aimed at a dance club crowd. Either the results sound absolutely ridiculous or they just end up sounding nothing like the source material (see Moby's remixes of Aerosmith's "Falling In Love (Is Hard On The Knees)" which reduced […]

Amusement Parks On Fire - Road Eyes

Amusement Parks On Fire Road Eyes   When Mike Feerick released his first album under the name Amusement Parks On Fire in 2004—a bedroom recording concocted by the then 16 year old songwriter—anyone who caught wind of it knew they were in the presence of a rare talent, and they had to know that he […]

Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter Halcyon Digest   At what point do we start to worry about Deerhunter disappearing completely? Over the course of their still young career, this Georgia-based band have felt like their music was receding further behind a wall of effects and filters, as if it was an attempt to write pop songs using Alvin Lucier's […]

Hot Chip - We Have Remixes EP

Hot Chip We Have Remixes EP   Following the strange logic that dictates that any dance-oriented artist should have a remix collection foisted upon an unsuspecting public mere months after the release of their full-length album comes this five-song EP. It features reconfigured versions of tracks from Hot Chip's fourth album, One Life Stand, released […]
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