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Articles Written by: ANDREW GAERIG
As the chief songwriter and vocalist for Broken Social Scene, it seemed reasonable to expect Kevin Drew's solo debut, Spirit If..., to sound quite a bit like a BSS record. The first volume of Arts & Craft's Broken Social Scene Presents series, Spirit ...
From ANDREW GAERIG,
Pitchfork,
18 Jul 2008
Fans and critics have long struggled with favorite artists maturing, but Portland singer-songwriter Mirah has traced a mostly upward trajectory with all manner of aging-artist-things: increasingly assured vocals, more poetic and less overtly personal ...
From ANDREW GAERIG,
Pitchfork,
16 Jul 2008
Here's another re-write of that old "not that many people saw the Velvet Underground play but everyone who did started a band"-adage: A fair amount of people have seen Animal Collective play and lots of them bought five Halloween masks, three samplers, ...
From ANDREW GAERIG,
Pitchfork,
15 Jul 2008
The artwork of Violets features scenes from a building in pleasant disrepair. Papers scattered and walls sea-green in morning light, it's the type of squat-able city residence you'd expect to find an art collective haunting. The photos serve Twine's ...
From ANDREW GAERIG,
Pitchfork,
20 Jun 2008
Auburn Lull have proven surprisingly hard to forget. Minor members of Michigan's minor space rock scene-- think Burnt Hair Records, Windy and Carl, Mahogany; call it suburbgaze-- the Lansing quartet are now on their fourth Darla release: a reissued 1999 ...
From ANDREW GAERIG,
Pitchfork,
19 Jun 2008
For any band with the willingness or capability to write actual tunes, critics and fans are apt to see anything else-- interludes, instrumentals, experiments-- as a digression. I understand and partially accept that this is what you are choosing to do ...
From ANDREW GAERIG,
Pitchfork,
11 Jun 2008
It's easy to think that music made by relatively few people, with relatively familiar instruments, should fall under the canopy of "folk": uncluttered, transparent, linked to past traditions. Wildbirds and Peacedrums-- husband-and-wife Swedes Andreas ...
From ANDREW GAERIG,
Pitchfork,
2 Jun 2008
Indian Jewelry's debut album, Invasive Exotics, dropped at exactly the right time-- about six months after Liars' Drum's Not Dead. The album proved a worthy footnote to the Year Indie Rock Cared About Tribal-y Drone-y Things, an addendum for those not ...
From ANDREW GAERIG,
Pitchfork,
28 May 2008
Movin' on up/ To the Upper West Side/ To that club gig show in the sky. It's a familiar script: Brooklyn quartet Flying broke out in 2006 with their self-recorded debut Just-One-Second-Ago Broken Eggshell, which crackled with the sort of electricity ...
From ANDREW GAERIG,
Pitchfork,
21 May 2008
lack Dice’s move from the ocean-jungle drum wrangling of Beaches and Canyons to the electro-burp machinations of Broken Ear Record has been their most documented shift, but the most exciting move they made in the past five years was to stop acting ...
From ANDREW GAERIG,
Stylus Magazine,
23 Oct 2007
