David Bowie, "Heroes" I know that as an underground rock dork, and a fan of experimental music, I should really regard Heroes (or at least the Eno years) as Bowie's peak. But I just can't do it. Gimme the...
Prince Paul, "Psycho Linguistics (Convergent Thought)" Before his masterpiece, A Prince Among Thieves, Prince Paul released an uneven first solo record, Psychoanalysis: What Is It?. There are some good tunes on it, but a lot of kind of self-indulgent meandering, so it'...
Stephen Malkmus, "Discretion Grove" Do you detect a little echo of "Wounded Kite" there in the aborted first bit of song on this track? No? Just me? The Suicide Machines, "Our Time" No, we're leaving the "...
Today! Daft Punk, "Give Life Back To Music" As a teenager, I took it for granted that disco sucked. Everybody knew it sucked, right? It was shiny and for dancing! I didn't really interrogate the reasons why there was a cultural...
OK, let's see if we can do better than that low energy thing yesterday. Whatcha got, shuffle? Dawnbringer, "Nobody There" Pure heavy metal revivalism, Dawnbringer has decided to see if they can just play this stuff totally straight and manage to...
