Archive for September, 2006

Nina Gordon: Bleeding Heart Grafitti

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

This is one of those love-it-or-hate-it albums. And if you love it, I’m sorry. You’re wrong. Forget my feelings about the subjective nature of taste; if you like this crap, you and I have a problem. Let’s look at a list of the ways this album fails to be redeeming:

Every song […]

Darker My Love: Darker My Love

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

Paradoxically, my main criticism with Darker My Love’s self-titled album is also my main compliment. The album is hypnotically beautiful, but the layered, droning songs bleed together into a 40-minute fuzz-fest that struggles to avoid becoming stagnant. Lush vocal harmonies crawl out of the mist and add to the psychedelic vibe, but despite […]