Sunday, April 15, 2012

Album: Dinowalrus - Best Behavior

Dinowalrus (Best Behavior)
Album: Best Behavior
Old Flame
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Rating: ****** (6/10)

Outside the UK, there doesn’t seem to be much middle ground when it comes to the Second Summer of Love—either you’d give your favorite limb for a time machine set to the glory days of the Haçienda, or you have no idea what this sentence is referring to. >> Read the full review at popmatters.com

Album: Mirrorring - Foreign Body

Foreign Body (Mirrorring)
Album: Mirrorring
Kranky
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Rating: ******** (8/10)

If there was an award for saddest-slowest-quietest abstract songwriter of the last five years, Jesy Fortino (better known as Tiny Vipers) and Liz Harris (better known as Grouper) would have to duke it out. But there is no such prize. Instead, Fortino and Harris have formed some sort of sad-slow-quiet abstract Dream Team, named it Mirrorring, and put out a record. >> Read the full review at popmatters.com