Bubble and Scrape marked the point at which Sebadoh's aesthetic evolved from "quick, where's the four-track?" to reasonably well-crafted indie rock, arguably, the defining sound of that perpetually slippery genre. The band's previous full-length, the ...
"When you cease to walk/ Your bones turn to chalk," twentysomething David Karsten Daniels moans in long-drawn, halting breaths, sounding like an old man ineffectively raging against the dying of the light. The weary ache of "Wheelchairs" sets the stage ...
Covers albums ask you to set aside some of rock crit's most reliable qualitative barometers, songwriting and "artistic growth," for a slightly different set of evaluative tools such as interpretative skill and aesthetic cohesion. But what most fans ...
Like Madonna, Björk, and Beyoncé, Jaymay (aka Jamie Seerman) rocks just the one iconic name. And like logorrheic, New York-based folk-popsters Regina Spektor, Nellie McKay, and Casey Dienel, she sings winsome, quasi-confessional songs that the ...
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