Ooh Yoshimi! 9/10 What a fantastic discovery. It is easy to see why the Flaming Lips should dedicate a whole album to Yoshimi P-We, one half of Japanese space rockers The Boredoms and ringleader of OOIOO. What they share with the Lips is a wonderous innocence and awe-struck playfulness, creating experimental music that is neither [...]
Entries from December 2005
ooioo – Gold and Green
December 9th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Alt-rock, Best of 2005, Music, post-rock, Prog, Psychedelia
Tags:post-rock·Prog rock·Psychedelia·trance·tribal
Animal Collective – Feels
December 9th, 2005 · No Comments · Alt-rock, Ambient, Best of 2005, New Wierd America, post-rock, Psychedelia
Animal feelings 7/10 This should have been the Collective’s crowning moment. The return of the full ‘line-up’ so soon after last year’s Avey Tare and Panda Bear-orchestrated masterpiece ‘Sung Tongs’ heralded great things, and many early reviews agreed. I’m not so convinced. There are moments on this record where they genuinely seem to push the [...]
Tags:Alt-rock·Ambient·Folk·New Wierd America·post-rock·Psychedelia