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#20 album of 2013 – Play with Fire by Reign of Kindo
Artist: Reign of Kindo
Album: Play with Fire
The songs I embed with a review are always, I figure, better than nothing, but they range from “desperately-grabbed only YouTube evidence this artist exists” to “an illustration of one of the several approaches the artist uses” to “just right”. In the case of Reign of Kindo’s Play with Fire, I’ve got the latter: not only is the Hero, the Saint, the Tyrant, and the Terrorist my favorite song […]
#21 album of 2013 – No Blues by Los Campesinos!
Artist: Los Campesinos!
Album: No Blues
Los Campesinos!, unlike the majority of the bands I review here, are well-known to, and well-loved by, rock critics and the music blogging community. They sell pretty well too, at least in their native U.K. This makes sense. While a certain percentage of the music I like is outright weird and difficult, I think most of it is blocked from mass popularity by a couple of simple differences between my taste […]
#22 album of 2013 – Solar Power by Lost World Band
Artist: Lost World Band
Album: Solar Power
Lost World Band are currently a Russian quartet of drums, flute, “keyboards/sound/production”, and one man — Andy Didorenko — on violins, guitars, bass, and sometimes vocals. Solar Power is their fourth album and, of the ones I’ve heard, clearly their most forthright and catchy. It is also weirdly bifurcated. The majority of the tracks, the instrumentals, are fiery rock tracks. They have the fast agile interplay of good jazz, sure; […]