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Review: Melophobia – Cage the Elephant

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Melophobia

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Letter Grade: B

 

Melding together the upbeat songwriting that made their first two albums so successful, with a distinctly more lo-fi sound, the third release from Bowling Green Alt-rockers, Cage the Elephant, continues to drive more traditional Rock N Roll into the mainstream.  Melophobia, the follow up to 2011’s wildly successful [itunes link=”https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shake-me-down/id409370037?uo=4″ title=”Thank You, Happy Birthday” text=”Thank You, Happy Birthday”], starts off with two fast paced jams before slowing down in the third track, [itunes link=”https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/telescope/id683346293?i=683346495&uo=4″ title=”Telescope” text=”Telescope”], a slow moving, somewhat sad, surf guitar fueled little ditty that is stuck somewhere in between [itunes link=”https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-beach-boys/id562555?uo=4″ title=”The Beach Boys” text=”The Beach Boys”] and [itunes link=”https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/mac-demarco/id501437762?uo=4″ title=”Mac Demarco” text=”Mac Demarco”].

October 17, 2013Posted inMusic, New Releases, News, ReviewsNo Comments
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Review: Glow and Behold – Yuck

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Glow and Behold

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Letter Grade: C+

 

Reviewed By: Margaret Jokoh

On September 30, 2013, Yuck released their album, “Glow and Behold.” Contrary to their name, Yuck, is a band who makes great music. The indie sound is brighten up with the influence of trumpets and the use of distortion pedals. “Glow and Behold” is smooth and very clean all the way through. Songs like, “Lose my Breath” definitely “glow” more brightly on the album than some of the other songs on the album.

October 16, 2013Posted inMusic, New Releases, ReviewsNo Comments
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Top 20 Tracks Week of 10.13.13

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1. “Reflektor”- Arcade Fire [itunes link=”https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/reflektor/id697069412?i=697069710&uo=4″ title=”Itunes”]

2. “Don’t Save Me”- Haim [itunes link=”https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dont-save-me/id576494267?i=576494383&uo=4″ title=”Itunes”]

3. “Recover”-Chvrches [itunes link=”https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/recover/id611187047?i=611187341&uo=4″ title=”Itunes”]

October 16, 2013Posted inMusic, New Releases, News, ReviewsNo Comments
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Review: Volcano Choir – Repave

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Repave

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Grade: A

The organ drone that kicks off Repave, the sophomore album from Eau Claire based band Volcano Choir, immediately captures the listener and sets them on this epic journey of an album. Justin Vernon and friends have been hard at work since [itunes link=”https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/bon-iver/id273428126?uo=4″ title=”Bon Iver” text=”Bon Iver “]hung up their instruments at the end of 2012. Vernon already released one album with his band [itunes link=”https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-shouting-matches/id610046049?uo=4″ title=”The shouting matches” text=”The Shouting Matches”] this year, and while that was a foot stomping and jug blowing good time, Repave and Volcano Choir pick up where Bon Iver left off. Just as the lead single, “Byegone”, had alluded to over the summer, each song grows in complexity from beginning to end, resulting in an album of rich folk anthems.

October 16, 2013Posted inMusic, New Releases, ReviewsNo Comments