Kim Novak – The Golden Mean [Kutu Folk Records, 2011] Kim Novak is a band with the already-famous name borrowed from an actress, four guys from France – sounding absolutely American. They can be placed in the same line with … Continue reading
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo OST [Null Corporation, 2011] The soundtrack to the second David Fincher’s film in a row from Nine Inch Nail’s frontman Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. After the highly successful … Continue reading
Best albums of 2011 (BTW, I’m really sorry I didn’t find the time to write about Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX’s album, it’s really fabulous, in both instrumental and vocal versions). 1. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming 2. The … Continue reading
Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost [True Panther, 2011] Girls, the duo from San Francisco, play a kind of alternative/indie rock. In its widest sense. The music has smeared the division between the subtleties of genres and is lacking (seemingly) … Continue reading
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake [Vagrant, 2011] One of the best albums of 2011. I was surprised looking back at the year and seeing that I haven’t written about it – but it still makes sense to leave a … Continue reading
Korallreven – An Album By Korallreven [Hybris, 2011] The debut album by Swedish-American duo Korallreven will be out on November 15 via Hybris (in Scandinavia) and Acéphale (the rest of the world). Hype Machine has the full album streamed now. … Continue reading
M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming [Mute, 2011] Of course, everyone has already made correlations between last year’s Anthony Gonzalez’ description of M83 new album as “very, very, very epic” with what their work resulted in. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming … Continue reading
Tarwater – Inside The Ships [Bureau B, 2011] Eleventh album by Tarwater has already been called their most haunted one. Eleven, wow, is already a very respected music history, the first thought is – really? Still, it’s not their time … Continue reading
Lo-Fi-Fnk – The Last Summer [La Vida Locash, 2011] Lo-Fi-Fnk in 2006 got me with their debut album Boylife. Now they have a very long-awaited new on, The Last Summer. The single Boom smells a bit of post-Soviiet pop of … Continue reading
The Drums – Portamento [Frenchkiss, 2011] After a not so smooth departure of the band’s guitarist, The Drums come back with a pretty good sophomore album, Portamento. Not much to say about it, really. The Drums are still about simple … Continue reading
