Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks – Enter the Slasher House
As expected, Enter the Slasher House is full of fun, psychedelic pop energy, with colorful composition and catchy choruses. The record also takes on garage-pop influences, as Tare (of Animal Collectve) is joined by Dirty Projectors’ Angel Deradoorian and Dan Deacon’s Jeremy Hymen. The album has a campy, carnival-like sound with references to low-grade horror movie tropes.
RIYL: Animal Collective
Focus Tracks: A Sender, Blind Babe, Little Fang, Roses on the Window, Strange Colores
Reviewed by Angela Schifani.
As expected, Enter the Slasher House is full of fun, psychedelic pop energy, with colorful composition and catchy choruses. The record also takes on garage-pop influences, as Tare (of Animal Collectve) is joined by Dirty Projectors’ Angel Deradoorian and Dan Deacon’s Jeremy Hymen. The album has a campy, carnival-like sound with references to low-grade horror movie tropes.
RIYL: Animal Collective
Focus Tracks: A Sender, Blind Babe, Little Fang, Roses on the Window, Strange Colores
Wye Oak – Shriek
Shriek is the follow-up to 2011’s highly acclaimed Civilian. Andy Stack and Jen Wasner found themselves separated across the country after their tour, and thus, shared ideas via telephone and email to create the sound for this record–much like St. Vincent and David Byrne did for Love this Giant. What the record lacks in guitar, Wasner and Stack make up for with masterful electronics and enchanting vocals.
RIYL: St. Vincent
Focus Tracks: Glory, Schools of Eyes
Reviewed by Angela Schifani
Shriek is the follow-up to 2011’s highly acclaimed Civilian. Andy Stack and Jen Wasner found themselves separated across the country after their tour, and thus, shared ideas via telephone and email to create the sound for this record–much like St. Vincent and David Byrne did for Love this Giant. What the record lacks in guitar, Wasner and Stack make up for with masterful electronics and enchanting vocals.
RIYL: St. Vincent
Focus Tracks: Glory, Schools of Eyes
These New Puritans – Field of Reeds
Following the critical acclaim of 2011’s Hidden, These New Puritans’s latest release sees a further fragmentation from their sound of origin, a process requiring the use of a hawk, the lowest voice in all of Britian, and the removal of consonants.
Focus track: Fragment Two
Reviewed by Maggie Sylvester
Following the critical acclaim of 2011’s Hidden, These New Puritans’s latest release sees a further fragmentation from their sound of origin, a process requiring the use of a hawk, the lowest voice in all of Britian, and the removal of consonants.
Focus track: Fragment Two