2004 Archive

  • Stick around after the first track (which is fifteen minutes of soft noise and bits of feedback) and you’ll be surprised. Gentle folk-rock is housed next to pulsing instrumental freak-outs […]

    Ghost – Hypnotic Underworld

    Stick around after the first track (which is fifteen minutes of soft noise and bits of feedback) and you’ll be surprised. Gentle folk-rock is housed next to pulsing instrumental freak-outs […]

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  • For Air, everything in the wake of Moon Safari (a great pop record) and The Virgin Suicides (a slice of Floydian wonder) is a valley — and they’re looking anywhere […]

    Air – Talkie Walkie

    For Air, everything in the wake of Moon Safari (a great pop record) and The Virgin Suicides (a slice of Floydian wonder) is a valley — and they’re looking anywhere […]

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  • Comic books run the movie trade. They are a constant, and everyone’s trying to outdo each other. Van Helsing, Elektra, Constantine… I’m over it. But Sky Captain And The World […]

    Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow

    Comic books run the movie trade. They are a constant, and everyone’s trying to outdo each other. Van Helsing, Elektra, Constantine… I’m over it. But Sky Captain And The World […]

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  • The Beach Boys are about calculated innocence. They mean it. Too old to hit the highs, Brian Wilson pines for the eternal image of Pet Sounds (1966) — youth as […]

    Brian Wilson – SMiLE

    The Beach Boys are about calculated innocence. They mean it. Too old to hit the highs, Brian Wilson pines for the eternal image of Pet Sounds (1966) — youth as […]

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  • Pretend that in 1978 George Romero did not make the great (if sometimes maddening) Dawn Of The Dead. That the last zombie pic anyone could take seriously did not exist. […]

    Dawn Of The Dead

    Pretend that in 1978 George Romero did not make the great (if sometimes maddening) Dawn Of The Dead. That the last zombie pic anyone could take seriously did not exist. […]

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